A showdown may be imminent at the Supreme Court now that the Justice Department has hedged again.
A federal judge denied the Justice Department’s request for more time on Friday to explain its plans for returning a man to the U.S. after the government deported him to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued a two-page order Friday after Justice Department prosecutors cited a need for a “reasonable period of time to review the Supreme Court’s order,” issued late Thursday that ordered the government to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S…
It’s ridiculous that the US government is paying a foreign government to detain prisoners on its behalf and seems to be claiming it didn’t put anything in the contract about a way to get the prisoners back.
I strongly suspect that this was all by design. If they jail them in US prisons, it’s very easy for them to be released. When they’re being held by a foreign government, it’s very difficult to force them to release them, especially when they know the president doesn’t actually want them released in the first place. I’d even wager there’s an under the table agreement that they won’t release them, even if pressed.
Well, it’s not even under the table. The vile price of shit warden publicly said something to the effect of, “Yeah, none of them are ever seeing their homes again”
There’s also the fact that the prisons are NOTABLY deadly. So if the administration winds up actually being forced to release a person, they can just have an “unfortunate accident” and now that’s ANOTHER court case to determine whether they have to ship the body back (which again, is easily handled by “well it’s in one of these mass graves.”)
Given that they admitted he was detained by mistake in the first place, I think “evil” is the word I’d use.
It just temporary, until they finish the 30,000 bed facility theyre building in Guantanamo.
Suuure. Temporary. Just like when IT strung that wire across the ceiling…
And like when I had to move offices to make room for a temporarily displaced group that’s still there 2 years later. They were supposed to be gone by summer.