The judge overseeing the case of wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Wednesday granted a request from his attorneys to file a motion seeking sanctions against the government for failing to comply with discovery requests.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in April ordered the Trump administration to provide discovery evidence showing the process by which Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador despite him being issued a 2019 court order barring his deportation to his home country due to the fear of persecution.
Wednesday’s order from Xinis comes after Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said in a court filing that some of the discovery productions by the government include “highly redacted internal messages” and other materials that were classified as “Confidential or Attorney’s Eyes Only” – without a motion to designate the items as being under seal.
Judges need to start holding people in contempt and locking them up till Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the US. Then the agents and their supervisors need to be charged with kidnapping and wrongful imprisonment.
But that would set a precedent that people in power can have consequences to their actions!
Yes. So LET’S FUCKING SEE IT!
These courts exist to serve capital; not the people. That’s why you don’t see shit.
That would be a possible outcome but the fun one is the judges ability to prevent the normal withholding of evidence that isn’t directly requested. Instead the judge can say I (we both counsel and the judge) need to see everything and you can’t say no, anything but provided can be held directly against you and anything that should exist that doesn’t can be held as spoliated.
It’s a public docket so that would be fairly disastrous for every ice or hsi arrest.
While they absolutely at least should be seen trying. Unfortunately this criminal administration will just pardon them. Until the legislative branch decides to do absolutely anything, expect nothing.
this poor guy is going to wind up dead or missing to make the headache go away for trump’s benefit
How is he not already dead? Do we have any confirmation?
Yes. He was briefly released for an interview with a democratic senator who visited. This was weeks ago, though.
I’ve seen nothing recent showing him.
US Senator Van Hallen (from Maryland) flew down to El Salvador managed to see him after applying a bunch of pressure in mid April. So he was at least alive then. Photos were published and such of said meeting
Other dems from congress have flow down besides Van Hallen, but haven’t been able to get a visit. They’ve also had a ton less media attention, so there was less pressure on El Salvador to let them visit him. For instance, Glenn Ivey traveled to El Salvador and tried to visit a week ago but I doubt most people here probably heard about that
Well I’ve definitely heard of Van Halen but I thought they broke up
