Fourth circuit denies appeal against order to facilitate return

[struggle4progress]

15.06 EDT

A federal appeals court has rejected an effort by the justice department to halt a judge’s investigation into whether the Trump administration violated court orders to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

In its order on Thursday, the court said the Trump administration’s request to bar US district judge Paula Xinis from opening her inquiry was “both extraordinary and premature”.

We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the supreme court’s recent decision,” the order states.

“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/17/donald-trump-harvard-stripped-funds-el-salvador-us-politics-latest-updates-news

[tonkatoy8888]

1. Oh, I like that

“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all”

I'm not an attorney, but it sounds like this is a polite way of saying, "No. Everyone in this DOJ is a lying sack of shit. Let Judge Xins get on with it."

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

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The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.

This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/17/donald-trump-harvard-stripped-funds-el-salvador-us-politics-latest-updates-news?