The U.S. Department of Justice is warring with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in the case involving a man the government admitted they wrongfully deported.
The DOJ was told to issue details by noon on a deported Maryland man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The DOJ response came in nearly an hour late, and it appeared to be issuing a startling response, according to legal analysts.
Host of the Law&Chaos podcast Liz Dye said, "The Trump administration responds to Judge Xinis's order in Abrego Garcia case. And the response is F--- YOU."
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Judge Xinis also denied the motion to extend the deadline that the DOJ requested. Dye said that the written order is "even better." She anticipates, "This will get ugly fast."
Legal analyst and Substacker Chris Geidner pointed out that the DOJ responded to the filing deadline 50 minutes after the cut off. Among the things they said was, "Defendants are not in a position where they 'can' share any information requested by the Court. That is the reality."
"Normally the government goes well out of its way to avoid antagonizing judges -- even when it can't or won't do what it's been told. But the Justice Department is cranking the dial to 11 on this case in basically every way possible," said Reuters legal reporter Brad Heath.
"The government *admitted* that it broke the law by shipping a man to a foreign prison, in violation of a court order. And yet its entire approach to handling this case has been some flavor of 'who are you to question us?'" Heath added.
Georgetown Law School's Steve Vladeck responded, "Indeed, this is *exactly* what's wrong with last night's #SCOTUS ruling, as I wrote about in this morning's newsletter. Everyone saw this coming. And yet the Court did what it did anyway."
"Filed nearly an hour late only to say this: 'Defendants are unable to provide the information requested by the Court on the impracticable deadline set by the Court hours after the Supreme Court issued its order,'" quoted Lawfare's Anna Bower.
"Bring back circuit riding but at the district court level. Let’s see how Chief Justice [John] Roberts and [Amy Coney Barrett] ACB react when the government antagonizes them like this," she added.
"How is this not contemptuous behavior???" asked MSNBC host Katie Phang.
"Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday. What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?" Valdeck later posted.
