Hearing on Kilmar Garcia abduction

“I do need evidence in this regard because to date what the record shows is nothing has been done,” US District Judge Paula Xinis said in a tense hearing Tuesday afternoon in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Xinis said she was unsatisfied with the sworn statements she’s been getting each day from Trump administration officials detailing what the government has been doing to carry out her directive.

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Xinis said some of the discovery could come in the form of depositions taken by attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia of the administration officials who have been submitting the daily sworn statements.

“Going to be two weeks of intense discovery,” the judge said at one point. “Once we have a record, we’ll take it from there.”

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Two weeks more in a torture camp for Garcia.

“It is a fact now of this record that every day Mr. Garcia is detained in CECOT is a day of irreparable harm,” the judge said at one point, referring to the Salvadoran prison where Abrego Garcia is currently being held.

Yeah, so two weeks is too much to gather a record.

The judge also rejected the Trump administration’s argument that her order that officials “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return only means “removing domestic obstacles” that would impede his ability to return to the US.

“When a wrongfully removed individual from the United States is outside the borders it’s not so cut and dry that all you have to do is remove domestic barriers,” she said.

Hold the administration in contempt and put aome DOJ attorneys behind bars.

UPDATE 04/16/2025:

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