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Judge scolds DOJ for demanding delay in mistakenly deported man case
This judge is getting pissed at trump's DOJ
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5244546-judge-trump-doj-mistakenly-deported-man/
The federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to try to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, scolded the Justice Department for demanding more time to update the court on next steps.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday evening that upheld the thrust of U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis’s order, she scheduled a Friday hearing in her Greenbelt, Md., courtroom at 1 p.m. EDT.
The Justice Department asked Xinis to postpone the hearing until next Wednesday and delay a Friday morning deadline to provide a written update, saying the timeline was “impracticable.”
The judge agreed to give the government two additional hours to provide the written update but declined to move the hearing, chastising the Justice Department for its demand.
“First, the Defendants’ act of sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was wholly illegal from the moment it happened, and Defendants have been on notice of the same,” Xinis wrote.
She went on to say that the government’s suggestion that it needs “time to meaningfully review a four-page Order that reaffirms this basic principle blinks at reality."
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday evening that upheld the thrust of U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis’s order, she scheduled a Friday hearing in her Greenbelt, Md., courtroom at 1 p.m. EDT.
The Justice Department asked Xinis to postpone the hearing until next Wednesday and delay a Friday morning deadline to provide a written update, saying the timeline was “impracticable.”
The judge agreed to give the government two additional hours to provide the written update but declined to move the hearing, chastising the Justice Department for its demand.
“First, the Defendants’ act of sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was wholly illegal from the moment it happened, and Defendants have been on notice of the same,” Xinis wrote.
She went on to say that the government’s suggestion that it needs “time to meaningfully review a four-page Order that reaffirms this basic principle blinks at reality."
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The trial judge is also asking for the DOJ to list all steps already taken to return Mr. Garcia. The DOJ is blowing off the judge
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The judge is piss off at the trump DOJ
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/trump-administration-illegal-deportation-el-salvador-00286877
GREENBELT, Maryland — An exasperated federal judge commanded the Trump administration Friday to begin providing “daily updates” on whether it is doing anything to comply with her order to return a Maryland man — illegally deported to El Salvador last month — back to the United States.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis scolded the administration for refusing to provide even “basic” details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location, despite her demand for an update by Friday morning.....
The administration’s stonewalling, which Xinis described as “extremely troubling,” raised the specter that it is defying the order that the judge issued last week and that the Supreme Court largely upheld Thursday.
Xinis, an Obama appointee, said that without any information — or even an acknowledgment that the administration had done anything at all — she could only conclude that the administration had “done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.”
“There’s an easy way to combat that,” she said, “and that’s just to tell me whether you’ve done anything and if so, what.”
Xinis’ new directive requires the daily updates to come from an administration official with “personal knowledge” of efforts to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. But Justice Department officials said they may not be prepared to comply with her demands until at least Monday......
Xinis told Ensign that if Trump administration officials were depriving him of information she demanded, then “you don’t have full and effective contact with your clients.”
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis scolded the administration for refusing to provide even “basic” details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location, despite her demand for an update by Friday morning.....
The administration’s stonewalling, which Xinis described as “extremely troubling,” raised the specter that it is defying the order that the judge issued last week and that the Supreme Court largely upheld Thursday.
Xinis, an Obama appointee, said that without any information — or even an acknowledgment that the administration had done anything at all — she could only conclude that the administration had “done nothing to facilitate the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.”
“There’s an easy way to combat that,” she said, “and that’s just to tell me whether you’ve done anything and if so, what.”
Xinis’ new directive requires the daily updates to come from an administration official with “personal knowledge” of efforts to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. But Justice Department officials said they may not be prepared to comply with her demands until at least Monday......
Xinis told Ensign that if Trump administration officials were depriving him of information she demanded, then “you don’t have full and effective contact with your clients.”
