Trump administration invokes state-secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case

[Zorro]

Source: CBS News

The Trump administration appears to have invoked the state-secrets privilege to withhold information in the case involving the mistaken removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador and any efforts by the Trump administration to return him to the United States.

The administration's assertion of the privilege was revealed in an order from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, which asked lawyers for Abrego Garcia and the Justice Department to file additional legal papers about the administration's "invocations of privilege, principally the state secrets and deliberative process privileges."

Xinis gave the two sides until Monday to submit the filings "addressing the legal and factual bases for the invocation of those privileges," including a request from Abrego Garcia's lawyers for the court to conduct a review of "the withheld documents." The judge also set a hearing for May 16 at the courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Justice Department had indicated last month that it would invoke certain privileges to protect information regarding Abrego Garcia's removal from the U.S., citing in a filing the attorney-client privilege, state secrets privilege and certain executive privileges.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-invokes-state-secrets-privilege-kilmar-abrego-garcia-case/

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Trump is pulling out all the stops to not bring Garcia back to the US, and no doubt will continue to refuse to comply with court orders.

The "Law and Order" party indeed.

[JBTaurus83]

1. Trump will win,

He knows he can delay courts for eternity and his nazi voters don’t care.

[underpants]

4. Yes he's stalling like usual

[TommyT139]

2. That's bullshit.

If he gets away with this, they can send anyone anywhere, with no recourse.

[Skittles]

3. which is pretty much the plan

starts with "criminal illegals", moves on to anyone who criticizes him

I've said all along if Trump could have his critics rounded up and sent to camps - or worse - HE WOULD

[underpants]

5. I'm guessing "state secrets" because El Salvador's is involved

[Volaris]

10. Its because if this guy ever gets back here and talks to the press, some of his cabinet secretaries will be going to jai

[BadgerKid]

6. Hmm...can't have due process for disappeared persons.

[Martin Eden]

7. All the necessary facts are already public knowledge

Kilmar Garcia was illegally sent to a prison in El Salvador.

The Trump administration is paying that country for imprisonsing persons sent there from the USA. No credible argument can be made that prisoners there can't be released into US custody. In fact, Trump said he can bring him back, but won't.

SCOTUS ruled that the Trump admistration must effectuate Garcia's return.

No conceivable "state secret" could change these facts. After court cases ruled against Trump, this is nothing but a ploy to avoid compliance -- not only in this case, but for every person (citizen or not) taken and sent to a foreign gulag without Constitutional due process of law.

[PATRICK]

8. He is asking for so much

for so little that any surrender entitles autocracy. This is not about having a high priced lawyer and some corrupt judges fixing a traffic ticket! Unless SCOTUS wants to let its power and money deflate they might want to end the charade sometime?

[Martin68]

9. Here we go, straight into authoritarian territory.