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The Trump DOJ responded to a federal judge’s order demanding more details on its decision to deport MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.
On Tuesday evening Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, erupted on the Trump Administration after a conference to address the government’s dispute over discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.
The judge accused the Trump Administration of defying her court order and ordered the government to provide more details by Wednesday about its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
On Wednesday the Trump DOJ in a sealed motion asked the judge to pause discovery in the case for seven days.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US.
A dispute over discovery in the Abrego Garcia deportation case escalated after the government maintained that providing certain details are an invasion of diplomatic discussions.
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday accused the government of stonewalling its effort to obtain more details on Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador.
On Tuesday, Judge Xinis accused the Trump Administration of acting in “bad faith” and ‘obstructing’ efforts to gather more information on its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
“Defendants’ objection reflects a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations. The objection is overruled. Defendants are therefore ordered to supplement their answers in full compliance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Their answers must include facts responsive to the requests, not oblique and incomplete, non-specific characterizations,” Judge Xinis wrote in an 8-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
