With seven-day pause expiring Wednesday, Paula Xinis says administration must provide sworn testimony by May
A federal judge on Wednesday again directed the Trump administration to provide information about its efforts so far, if any, to comply with her order to retrieve Kilmar Ábrego García from an El Salvador prison.
The US district judge Paula Xinis in Maryland temporarily halted her directive for information at the administration’s request last week. But with the seven-day pause expiring at 5pm, she set May deadlines for officials to provide sworn testimony on anything they have done to return Ábrego García to the US.
Ábrego García, 29, has been imprisoned in his native El Salvador for nearly seven weeks, while his mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint for Donald Trump’s immigration policies and his increasing friction with the US courts.
this is fucking ridiculous. The whole system is inept. Aren’t the police supposed to arrest criminals? Arrest the people who kidnapped and facilitated the kidnapping and human trafficking of Kilmar.
She must hold them in contempt or else she’s effectively letting the Constitution burn. I don’t care that judges don’t like ruling against the government. When the government is deliberately committing illegal acts you have to uphold your oath.
Or what, they’ll ask again?
Most Americans are too busy with their overabundance of bread and circus to do that.
She has to say “pretty please with a cherry on top” first, then they’ll ask again.
