DOJ flouting order to share information [View all]

by Rebecca Beitsch - 04/22/25 11:56 AM ET

... Xinis last week ordered four Trump administration officials to sit for depositions with Abrego Garcia’s attorneys as well as respond to written questions from their team in the wake of a Supreme Court decision ordering Trump attorneys to “facilitate” the Maryland man’s return.

But Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said the government has resisted supplying needed information in discovery requests also mandated by Xinis.

“On the eve of the first Court-ordered deposition concerning the Government’s failure to comply with this Court’s orders, the Government responded to Plaintiffs’ discovery requests by producing nothing of substance,” they wrote in the filing, asking Xinis to set a hearing to review the matter.

The filing is the latest sign the Trump administration is digging in after initially telling Xinis it had no way to secure Abrego Garcia’s return once he was turned over to be imprisoned in El Salvador ...

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5260757-trump-administration-resists-court-orders/