Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
This is Reuters' liberal spin on the story and it still makes this judge look dumber than a pile of anvils.
April 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration must return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador back to the United States within three days, the latest legal setback for the administration's hardline deportation policies.
But the administration has argued it has no legal authority to bring him back to the country, though Abrego Garcia's lawyers dispute that.
"They put him there, they can bring him back,” Andrew Rossman, lawyer at prominent law firm Quinn Emanuel that joined Abrego Garcia’s legal team on Friday, said in a statement.
In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Xinis should contact President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador "because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction or authority over the country of El Salvador."
In a court filing on early Saturday, the U.S. Justice Department called the judge's order "indefensible" and urged the appeals court to immediately pause the ruling.
The United States said Abrego Garcia "has no legal right or basis to be in the United States at all" and that "the public interest obviously disfavors his return, let alone a slapdash one conducted as the result of judicial fiat."
After questioning government lawyers, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled at a Greenbelt, Maryland, court hearing that the government must take steps to bring him back to the United States by April 7.
I love how Reuters puts the Judge's name at the bottom of the story. That is so the reader doesn't automatically think "Who?" I haven't looked her up, but based on the other judges who have made these crazy rulings, there's a ninety percent chance that she is an Obama or Biden appointee.
