A federal judge said on Tuesday that the Trump administration ignores the judicial orders, obstructing the legal process and acts in “bad faith” by refusing to provide information on the measures they have taken, if necessary, to release a man mistakenly expelled from a prison in El Salvador and return it to the United States
“For weeks, the defendants have sought refuge behind affirmations of vague and unfounded privileges, using them as a shield to obstruct the discovery and escape compliance with the orders of this court,” American district judge Paula Xinis said on Tuesday. “The defendants have known, at least since last week, that our court requires specific legal and factual projections to support any complaint of privilege. However, they continued to rely on driver’s claims. It ends now. ”
She gave the administration until 6 p.m. Wednesday to provide these details.
The United States Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration Almost two weeks ago to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia Return to the United States of a notorious Salvadoran prison, rejecting the assertion of the White House that she could not recover it after having expected it by mistake.
Trump administration officials have rejectedarguing that it was in El Salvador – although the president of El Salvador also said that he did not have the power to return Abrego Garcia. The administration also argued that information on the measures it has taken or could take to return Abrego Garcia is protected by the laws of lawyer-client privileges, secret state laws, the “government privilege” or other secrecy rules.
But Xinis said that these claims, without any fact to support them, reflected a “deliberate and bad refusal to comply with the discovery obligations”.
This is not the first time that the Trump administration has faced a scathing order of a federal judge on his approach to expulsion affairs.
A panel of three judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal scolded the administration Last week, saying that his statement can do nothing to release Abrego Garcia “should be shocking”. This decision one day came after a federal judge in Washington, DC, found a probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of the Court for having violated his orders to reverse planes carrying deportees to El Salvador in a different legal case.
Democrats and legal specialists claim that President Donald Trump causes a constitutional crisis in part by Ignore justice decisionswhile the The White House said It is the judges who are the problem.
