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sop

(15,213 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 07:23 AM Jul 8

'Frustrated Judge Struggles In The Quicksand Of The Abrego Garcia Case'

"GREENBELT, MARYLAND—I suppose it was inevitable that in a case over whether the Trump administration can defy federal court orders without consequence, a trial judge would emerge as a main character."

"In the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland is all of us: baffled, frustrated, annoyed, and at times outraged by the Trump administration’s conduct. It has flouted her orders, given her the run-around on facts, advanced contradictory legal arguments, and stonewalled discovery. The lingering image across multiple hearings in her courtroom is Xinis hunched over the bench, head in hands, imploring DOJ lawyers to provide her with straight answers to her questions."

"In another hearing Monday that stretched for more than two hours, Xinis waded through the latest round of Kafkaesque circularity from the Trump administration as it urged her to dismiss the original Abrego Garcia case now that he is back in the United States, albeit to face trumped-up federal charges in Tennessee. In the end, after very little progress was made, Xinis scheduled another hearing for Thursday, when she wants the Trump administration to put on the witness stand a yet-to-be-determined official who can give first-hand testimony as to the plans for deporting Abrego Garcia to a third country if he is released from custody in his criminal case."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/frustrated-judge-struggles-in-the-quicksand-of-the-abrego-garcia-case

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'Frustrated Judge Struggles In The Quicksand Of The Abrego Garcia Case' (Original Post) sop Jul 8 OP
Judges too are afraid of Krasnov gab13by13 Jul 8 #1
"As with so many Trump-era confrontations, the brazenness of the defiance isn't matched by a proportional sop Jul 8 #2
What would happen to us if we acted like this with a federal judge? Irish_Dem Jul 8 #3

gab13by13

(28,869 posts)
1. Judges too are afraid of Krasnov
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 07:40 AM
Jul 8

This judge must prove that Krasnov's lawyers knew that El Salvador claimed that the US was responsible for the transferred prisoners.

Krasnov and his lawyers have told several judges that once people are sent to El Salvador they are beyond their control to return them.

Waiting for a judge to find a Krasnov lawyer in contempt, anyone think it's going to happen?

sop

(15,213 posts)
2. "As with so many Trump-era confrontations, the brazenness of the defiance isn't matched by a proportional
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 07:53 AM
Jul 8

or speedy response." I believe these judges are afraid to find the DOJ in contempt. Doing so, then watching helplessly as their contempt rulings are also ignored, would only underscore how toothless the judiciary has become.

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