Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
“For weeks, Defendants have sought refuge behind vague and unsubstantiated assertions of privilege, using them as a shield to obstruct discovery and evade compliance with this Court’s orders,” Xinis wrote. “Defendants have known, at least since last week, that this Court requires specific legal and factual showings to support any claim of privilege. Yet they have continued to rely on boilerplate assertions. That ends now.”
The problems for Xinis right now are multiple and interlocking. The fact that Trump's people admitted to an "administrative error" emboldened highly partisan Democrats who assumed that was a surrender. She went too far by demanding Trump bring the suspected gang member to the states. The USSC over-turned that order and required clarification on the order to facilitate the return.
Xinis has not provided that clarification, but is instead conducting an ad hoc judicial investigation of the executive.
Earlier Tuesday, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys took the deposition of Joseph Mazzara, the top lawyer at the Department of Homeland Security, according to a source familiar with the case.
Mazzara has been providing the judge with some of the daily updates she is requiring the administration to submit to understand how it’s complying with her order to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.
The problem with her "that ends now" vow is that she has no means to enforce it. She hasn't clarified her order because any reasonable clarification would not get her what she wants, which is Kilmar in the U.S.
By issuing one unenforcible order after another. She damages the credibility of the courts.
The problems for Xinis right now are multiple and interlocking. The fact that Trump's people admitted to an "administrative error" emboldened highly partisan Democrats who assumed that was a surrender. She went too far by demanding Trump bring the suspected gang member to the states. The USSC over-turned that order and required clarification on the order to facilitate the return.
Xinis has not provided that clarification, but is instead conducting an ad hoc judicial investigation of the executive.
Earlier Tuesday, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys took the deposition of Joseph Mazzara, the top lawyer at the Department of Homeland Security, according to a source familiar with the case.
Mazzara has been providing the judge with some of the daily updates she is requiring the administration to submit to understand how it’s complying with her order to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return.
The problem with her "that ends now" vow is that she has no means to enforce it. She hasn't clarified her order because any reasonable clarification would not get her what she wants, which is Kilmar in the U.S.
By issuing one unenforcible order after another. She damages the credibility of the courts.
