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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.