There's a fierce competition for what we need to pay attn to right now, but the extrajudicial abduction of #kilmar Abrego Garcia is a strong contender for #1.
The Exec branch is nakedly defying courts & law now, and #scotus is running out of chances to assert any auth.
If it stands, the constitution is a dead letter.
#Kilmar Abrego Garcia
What the founding father thought about this.
Pages 16-17
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/amistad_002.asp
Supreme Court pauses wrongful deportation case at behest of Trump lawyers
The Supreme Court granted a temporary pause Monday on a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.
Background:
On Friday, a federal judge in Maryland ordered the administration to “facilitate and effectuate” the return of #Kilmar #AbregoGarcia by midnight on Monday.
Over the weekend, the administration appealed to the 4th Circuit Court, but lost by a 3-0 vote.
Today:
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the case is “stayed pending further order” of the court.
Both sides agree that due to an “administrative error,” Abrego-Garcia was flown with other detained men from Texas to a notorious prison in El Salvador on March 15.
Since then, however, the administration has refused to seek his return and insisted judges have no role in the matter.
He had been employed as a sheet metal worker in Baltimore. But in February, the Trump administration declared the MS-13 gang to be a “foreign terrorist organization, and agents went in search of identified gang members.
Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, says her husband has no criminal record and has been a good father to three children. She said he came to this country at age 16 to escape the gangs in El Salvador.
The judges who ruled on the case said the government did not show proof that Abrego Garcia had been gang member.
“The government’s ‘evidence’ was thin, to say the least,” Thacker said.
It was based on him “wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie” and a “vague and uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s Western clique in New York
— a place he has never lived.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-07/supreme-court-pauses-wrongful-deportation-case-at-behest-of-trump-lawyers
Trump wants to speak to the manager about deporting whoever he wants.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man, was deported to El Salvador on March 15 despite a protective order.
Kilmar Garcia et al. vs. US Department of Homeland Security et al.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25880320-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia-judge-response/
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The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be
“wholly lawless,”
federal judge #Paula #Xinis wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to the United States.
There is little to no evidence to support a “vague, uncorroborated” allegation that #Kilmar #Abrego #Garcia was once in the MS-13 street gang,
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis wrote.
And in any case, she said, an immigration judge had expressly barred the U.S. in 2019 from deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, where he faced likely persecution by local gangs.
“As defendants acknowledge, they had no legal authority to arrest him,
no justification to detain him,
and no grounds to send him to El Salvador
— let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere,” Xinis wrote.
She said it was “eye-popping” that the government had argued that it could not be forced to bring Abrego Garcia back because he is no longer in U.S. custody.
“They do indeed cling to the stunning proposition that they can forcibly remove any person
— migrant and U.S. citizen alike
—to prisons outside the United States,
and then baldly assert they have no way to effectuate return
because they are no longer the ‘custodian,’ and the Court thus lacks jurisdiction,” Xinis wrote.
“As a practical matter, the facts say otherwise.”
https://apnews.com/article/ice-trump-immigration-el-savador-5d2f7b919cb1a4ed5ce31d44f391d8f5
A federal judge says the U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless.” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued a legal opinion Sunday explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States. Abrego Garcia is a 29-year-old Salvadoran national. He was arrested in Maryland and deported last month despite an immigration judge’s 2019 ruling that shielded him from deportation to El Salvador, where he faced likely persecution by local gangs.
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