During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, attorney Kimberly Atkins Stohr predicted Donald Trump's administration can expect to face contempt hearings after infuriating a federal judge again.
Speaking with "The Weekend" co-host Jonathan Capehart, Atkins Stohr cited a demand from U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Judge Paula Xinis to provide her with information she has been asking for in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, giving the DOJ's lawyers one last week.
According to attorney Stohr, she sees trouble ahead for the DOJ.
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"What I am seeing from this, you know, now we're now that state secrets has entered the chat, this seems like someone at DOJ is going through a book and saying 'What possible defense? Okay, what have we done yet? Let's try state secrets.'"
"I mean, they seem to be throwing anything at the wall and seeing if it will stick in an effort to obstruct the orders from district court judges writ large," she added. "What I'm concerned about, beyond the safety of Mr. Abrego Garcia at this point, is the fact that when it comes to trial court judges, specifically the administration seems to just be saying we don't have to do what you say, you can't stop us, which is in itself part of the constitutional crisis, right?"
"The executive is supposed to abide by the judiciary," she elaborated. "But I think the increasingly lack of patience on the part of judges like Judge Xinis, on the part of the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, which just last night slapped the administration again, saying, 'We said what we said, stop deporting people without process. We're not going to say it again,' is really building up to a point that you're going to get a showdown and I'm expecting at least contempt hearings to start soon."
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