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Judge in Abrego Garcia case orders expedited discovery
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is entering his second month in an El Salvador mega-prison.
ByLaura Romero and Katherine Faulders ABCNews logo
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5:43PM
Judge in Abrego Garcia case orders expedited discovery
The federal judge overseeing the wrongful deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia said she will order expedited discovery.
The federal judge overseeing the wrongful deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia said she will order expedited discovery in order to "apply the law to the facts."
"The Supreme Court has spoken," U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis told the parties during a hearing in Maryland on Tuesday, five days after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed her ruling that the government "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return from an El Salvador prison.
"You made your jurisdictional arguments, you made your venue arguments," Judge Xinis told the Justice Department atrtorneys. "You made your arguments on the merits. You lost. This is now about the scope of the remedy."
Xinis said she will issue a written order as to why an expedited discovery -- in which officials are put under oath -- is warranted, saying "it will occur in two weeks." Xinis said she will issue a "number of interrogatories and requests for production of documents for the plaintiff."
https://6abc.com/post/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-administration-digs-case-wrongly-deported-maryland-man-returns-court/16179008/
Can someone translate this to layman language for me?
Two weeks is a lifetime under those circumstances.
Irish_Dem
(79,741 posts)She would not let a regular person keep lying and stalling week after week.
When someone's life was on the line.
Klarkashton
(4,699 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,741 posts)Start throwing Trump's attorneys in jail.
RandomNumbers
(19,056 posts)To be VERY clear: I do not KNOW. I am looking for a reason that maybe we shouldn't assume bad intentions or incompetence here.
Think about it - this is not just about this ONE case. This is the one that has made the headlines. I just saw that the vast majority of the men sent to that torture prison, are not convicted of ANY crimes.
Maybe the judge needs to balance the goal to act quickly for this man, vs. the imperative to "get it right" for the 150+ others - and the possibly vastly more future cases if the administration's despicable behavior is not successfully quashed in THIS case.
I am not a judge, or a lawyer, or anything close. I've served on a jury exactly once in my life, a couple decades ago, and it was harder than I thought it would be. So I do not know. I just hope that this judge is doing their best, and will get a good result in the end.
Irish_Dem
(79,741 posts)Got us Trump in the WH.
Handling Trump with kid gloves and taking years to decide anything.
It cost us our democracy.
This judge can go to hell with the other judges as far as I am concerned.
If Garcia is killed, she has blood on her hands.
As do the other judges for helping to kill our country and democracy.
Traildogbob
(12,561 posts)2 weeks, like a Health Care plan, Infrastructure week, releasing his tax returns.
The man will be dead. No income for his wife and special needs child. Real Jesus of the GQP.
The MFrs have had enough time and opportunities.
Can we imagine a Hague trial for crimes against Humanity, Being international criming now.
And Jack Smith prosecuting every ass hole in that meeting. Every damn one of them. Some with death penalties.
yellow dahlia
(4,516 posts)If he isn't dead yet, he is being tortured and harmed.
Ms. Toad
(38,240 posts)Trump lost at the Supreme Court, but keeps trying to relitigate the case instead of working in good faith to return Garcia.
She's done playing.
Hearing in two weeks with administration officials under oath.
Between now and the hearing she will demand written answers to questions (interrogatories) and require that documents be produced (likely including whatever contract is in place with Bukele - that's reading between the lines, but since Trump keeps saying he has no control, the judge will likely want to see what the agreement says).
orangecrush
(28,282 posts)This is the answer I was looking for.