Trump admin backs 'shocking proposition' that feds can 'snatch residents' off street, 'deposit them in foreign prisons'
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 3rd, 2025, 11:24 am
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia called out the Trump administration for continuing to advance an alarming proposal in its effort to end the lawsuit challenging the protected resident’s “illegal” removal from the U.S. to a terrorist prison in El Salvador without due process. The attorneys on Monday filed a 26-page response to the government’s motion to dismiss in Maryland federal court after the Justice Department last week continued once again asserted that federal courts have no role or authority in the resolution of the case.
“The Government asks this Court to accept a shocking proposition: that federal officers may snatch residents of this country and deposit them in foreign prisons in admitted violation of federal law, while no court in the United States has jurisdiction to do anything about it,” the filing states. “This Court, the Fourth Circuit, and the Supreme Court each rejected that jurisdictional gambit. All three courts unanimously affirmed a preliminary injunction that the Government must facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from El Salvador to the United States.”
The filing claims the Trump administration has been “unfazed” by its repeated court losses and further insinuates that the DOJ was unprepared for U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis to deny its day-of request for a 30-day extension on last week’s filing. After Xinis ordered the DOJ to stick to the original deadline, the government filed a “nearly verbatim” recitation of “the same jurisdictional arguments” already rejected by the district court, circuit court, and Supreme Court, according to Abrego Garcia’s attorneys.
“The Government’s position that courts cannot order it to aid the return of U.S. residents it unlawfully removed to foreign cells was ‘eye-popping’ before,” the filing states. “Repetition does not make it less so. Jurisdiction is not a game of ‘best two out of three.’ Once decided, it stays decided unless the facts or the law change. Neither has.”
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Full headline: ‘Eye-popping’: Trump admin backs ‘shocking proposition’ that feds can ‘snatch residents’ off street, ‘deposit them in foreign prisons’ with impunity, filing says
Link to FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25959701-govuscourtsmdd5788151760/
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25959701/govuscourtsmdd5788151760.pdf
As long as Roberts keeps stringing him along and running interference, he is going to keep doing this while people suffer.
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