The Trump administration continues to challenge the judge’s orders in the Abrego Garcia case, say lawyers

A federal judge from Maryland castigated the Trump administration on Tuesday for having flouted his instructions to answer questions about the measures that had been necessary and planned to take, to seek the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to Salvador last month.

The acute reprimand of the judge, Paula Xinis, contained in an eight -page order, suggested that she had lost her patience with the model of the Ministry of Justice to overcome it in the case implying the expelled man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

In his order, judge Xinis accused the ministry of “a voluntary refusal and in bad faith to comply with the discovery obligations”. She also dismissed her attempts to escape the provision of information on how Mr. Abrego Garcia found himself in a Salvado prison in a Salvado prison, which was equivalent to the privileged state secrets.

“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 ordinances of this court,” wrote Xinis, giving an vent to his frustrations. “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. “

Tuesday morning, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers wrote Xinis judge, accusing the government of “producing nothing of substance” in response to a list of 15 questions and 15 requests for documents they had given to the Ministry of Justice in an effort to determine what, if necessary, had done to release Mr. Abrego Garcia from the Salvador Guard.

Lawyers asked the judge to hear a hearing on Wednesday before the Maryland Federal District Court to decide how to proceed. But the judge, indicating that she had reached the end of her rope, had completely passed a conversation in the courtroom and simply told the government what he had hurt.