Government attorneys argued they should have more time to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home.
Summary
The Trump administration said it would not provide information on how it will get a wrongly deported Maryland dad home by a Friday morning deadline because the timeframe a judge imposed was “impracticable.”
In effect, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is openly defying a court order that requires it to provide details about 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and how he will be brought back stateside.
“The Supreme Court has spoken quite clearly, and yet I can’t get an answer,” said Judge Paula Xinis.
“We must heed the Supreme Court and get him back,” Rep. Jamie Raskin said.
I'd argue they might be testing the waters to see how much they can get away with. It could be a logistics thing, but I doubt it. I highly doubt they care one way or another about the individual.
This could be a blatant test on how far their power will extend. People haven't been saying "authoritarian" and "threat to democracy" for the past few months just for the fun of it.
Yes, I think this is a first test to see how far they can stretch things with the law and deport people without justification at all.
By extension it tests the current regimes ability and efficiency on how easily they can remove people.
When it is clear there are no legal roadblocks and delays the shipping containers and "train transports" will come out.....
Also, I don't think he's dead, might have been beaten and barely fed.
But they most likely will have no knowledge about his status or direct whereabouts at all, might even be handed over to El Salvador's prison anonymously.
Regimes in such prisons usually strip all identity anyway.
He very well could be dead, but I think the primary thing happening here is they want to create the precedent that they can't bring anyone back from this prison. That way, they can start sending "undesirable" American citizens "by mistake" and then just be able to say "not our problem".
Trump paid to send them there, and plans to even send American citizens.
US has its own prisons, and many are for profit, so they generate money from prisoners.
Now questions is why would we send people to a foreign country, and pay them to keep prisoners?
The answer is simple: CECOT is used to outsource getting rid of people. And unless US continuously pays them to hold them (which I doubt it was more than one time fee), CECOT has no benefit of keeping those people alive.
Start issuing arrest warrants for contempt of court to members of the administration, ICE, and any other member of any department who was involved in the process. Shotgun tactics. Go for area effect. See what sticks. This is the time for judges who actually give a shit to go all-in on the maximal exercise of their power.
Remember: Canp Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany.
Just need to have them sent to el Salvador to serve the time for a contempt charge. Then there won't be anything that can be done (according to the very same doj lawyers)
Emphisis on this: the judge didn't even order to bring him back. The judge ordered them to outline the steps to bring him back. The Trump Admin can't even do that.
If they do not, then the tyranny has almost complete power.
If they do, I suspect that violence will occur. I believe this is the outcome Trump is hoping for, because then he can skip the "almost" and completely sieze it through violent means.
What the fuck are you on about. It’s their court. It was theirs already during biden. This is just a show of power at this point. ALL of the checks and balances are gone already.
What precisely are the next steps in this process? If the SC has ruled, and they aren't complying, do you charge the Secretary of State with contempt and send them to jail until they comply?
The only way this ends in a sane world is the Supreme Court appointing marshals to arrest people.
I think you and I both know the number of bad possible outcomes outnumber the positive number of outcomes... and I think that applies to this entire presidency
Power grab. The judicial branch is a co-equal part of the government, along with the executive and legislative ones. Y'all protesting and marching with me...?