It has been more than a month since the Supreme Court ordered the White House to work to make the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador in March.
High administration officials-including President Trump himself-have repeatedly said that the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, would not return to the United States, largely because of the accusations that he is a member of the Gang de Street Violent MS-13.
Their public statements have raised important questions about the question of whether the administration openly holds the instructions of the Supreme Court – and what, if necessary, could be done on this subject.
But even if these weight problems simmer in the background, the White House is faced with a more immediate concern: if it has been remains by a separate legal order to answer questions about the way in which he dealt the case.
Friday, lawyers of the Ministry of Justice should appear before the Federal District Court of Maryland to defend their last efforts to avoid disclosing details on several key aspects of the procedure. These include diplomatic measures that officials have taken in recent weeks to publish Mr. Abrego Garcia, as well as the nature of the agreement between the White House and the Salvadoran government to host immigrants expelled in its prisons.
The Ministry of Justice has argued that many of these details should not be made public because they are equivalent to state secrets. In fact, in a declaration filed last week, mainly under Seal, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the disclosure of this equipment “could cause significant damage to foreign relations and national security interests in the United States”.
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