... Abrego Garcia's attorneys said the administration has claimed state secrets privilege and governmental privilege "without any foundation for doing so."

The attorneys also said they invited government officials to meet and confer several times, but the officials declined to meet until Monday evening, "on the eve of depositions."

Department of Homeland Security Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara was scheduled to be deposed Tuesday, according to the letter.

The government, in the same letter, said they have "put forward a good-faith effort to provide appropriate responses to both Plaintiffs' Interrogatories and Request for Production" ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/abrego-garcias-attorneys-decry-administrations-failure-comply-court/story?id=121046788

State secrets? The more classified and secret things are, the more likely it is that Hegseth will have a group chat set up with his family, friends, a journalist, and a few random drunk guys he met when he was on the booze.

The judge is really pissed. The DOJ actually refused to answer an interrogatory about efforts taken to facilitate the return of Mr. Garcia by misreading the ruling of the SCOTUS

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I cannot imagine a lawyer making this argument in good faith

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As I predicted the judge was NOT amused

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The Judge actually called the DOJ for being in bad faith

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There evidently were no sanctions yet but I can see the DOJ appealing to the SCOTUS (the Fourth Circuit has already ruled on this and was clear on the DOJ's obligation to felicitate the release and return of Mr. Garcia

This judge is pissed

Trump will ignore SCOTUS until he can corner them and take over the entire judicial system, same with the Fed. Anyone who thinks we're making progress is playing by the old rules where boundaries and legalities meant something. Meanwhile the beast rolls on.