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Stone Cold Stonewalling
New details on the extent of the Stonewalling of the Trump administration in the case of the Kilt ABREGO GARCIA exploded wrongly were revealed Thursday in a legal file. After six weeks of what was originally supposed to be two weeks of accelerated discovery, the government practically did not provide significant discovery responses, the lawyer’s report by Abrego Garcia.
The normal discovery disputes would generally not be worthy of interest, but this comes in the context of an outrage survey at the Court. The challenge of the discovery of the administration and the associated games game against his already dubious claims according to which he respected the ordinance of the American district judge Paula Xinis of Maryland to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia – an approved and echo by the Supreme Court.
The judge Xinis had ordered the discovery of the status of Abrego Garcia and what the Government had done and planned to facilitate its release of imprisonment in its native Salvador for two reasons: (i) to put pressure on the Trump administration to approach by his order supported by the Supreme Court to facilitate his return; and (ii) determine whether the administration had violated its order with sufficient bad faith to constitute an outrage at the Court.
After the Trump administration on Wednesday evening on Wednesday evening, requested an extension of the deadline of May 30 by which all discoveries must be completed, the lawyers of Abrego Garcia submitted a bloated response demonstrating how little the government has produced little. It already clearly emerged from public documents that the government had offered witnesses for depositions which had little or no personal knowledge of the facts of the case, contravening the judge’s order. The precise details of this challenge are not clear because many deposits remain under the seal.
New details show how deceased the production of government documents has also been. Two weeks ago, the government had only produced 34 real documents. During the following two weeks, he was given in which producing a rolling discovery, he coughed a total of an additional partial document, according to the Abrego Garcia file.
“It is far from being an effort in good faith to comply with the discovery ordered by the court. This reflects a model of deliberate delay and refusal of bad faith to comply with the judicial orders,” argued the lawyers of Abrego Garcia to oppose the request for popularization. “The patina of the promises of government lawyers to do tomorrow what they were already forced to do yesterday.”
ABREGO GARCIA lawyers say that the production of government documents has included what they characterize as “make -up” copies, non -reactive of existing deposits in the case and other documents accessible to the public which are not new or relevant. “”Zero The documents produced to the complainants to date reflect all the efforts to facilitate the release of Abrego Garcia and the return to the United States, “they say (their accent).
Judge Xinis did not buy it either.
“Notwithstanding the affirmations of diligence, the defendants explained any explanation on the reason why they could not produce any additional document on a hilly base, because they were satisfied could be completed at the hearing of May 16, 2025”, wrote Xinis yesterday when she refused the request of the administration to extend the deadline for discovery.
In addition to the scarcity of documents production, the government has still not responded to the limited set of interrogations that the judge has approved for the accelerated discovery, according to the lawyers of Abrego Garcia.
Trump Doj’s lawyers have also been involved in the low lance game, say the lawyers for Abrego Garcia. While the government declared in court that he had attempted to give them to the request to extend the deadline, in fact, the lawyers of the Doj contacted at 11:35 pm and made their request an hour later without waiting for the lawyers of Abrego Garcia to answer.
“It is not an attempt in good faith to obtain the position of the applicants,” observed Xinis in a footnote.
Aside from the game aside, the constitutional and real implications of the Abrego Garcia affair remain enormous. The rhythm of the challenge has slowed down since the burst of activity in mid-March, but the constitutional confrontation is no less real now that it was then.
“”[T]The government has embarked on an intentional locking and obscure scheme – all in the delay service of the inevitable conclusion, is that it did nothing to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, “concluded its lawyers in their last file.” More time will not change this, but it multiplied the prejudice of Abrego Garcia, which remains in a Customer of no matter in Salvad. “.
Go further on the main cases of constitutional conflict
Large constitutional clashes occur in anti-immigration cases where the underlying facts are often less important than the conduct of the Trump administration in court, which can be difficult to follow for lay people. Action (and often inaction) can be transformed into a complicated procedural maneuver and legal arguments, so the challenge of covering these cases is to find ways to inspire life because they are so important:
- In one of the best pieces I have read for a while, Adam Unikowsky unpacking the Alien Enemies Act in Texas that the Supreme Court has already weighed and which seems to be a probable vehicle for the major decisions it will take on the AEA.
- Steve Vladeck unwinds the Third country expulsion case from Massachusetts which did not seem as urgent as the cases of the AEA until the Trump administration begins its extreme shenanigans.
Trump’s law attacks are blind
President Trump continued the courts, his own people appointed judicial, federalist society, and now his supreme court whisper Leonard Leo.
It turns out that government’s work is hard
Dan Bongino has a good cry on Fox & Friends: “I abandoned everything for that. I mean, my wife has trouble … I look at these 4 walls all day at DC, you know, alone, divorced my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated.” (Note that Brian Kilmeade must encourage him lol)
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– Aaron Rupar (@ Atrpar.com) May 29, 2025 at 11:02 am
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Passing through Nashville last night, I caught a freewheeling set of blankets mainly the Beatles of the Bluegrass Band Greenwood Rye. Here is a recent sampling (with a different range of musicians):
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