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…

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    How do we know he’s even alive? They were so sure he’d never go home they may have simply killed the prisoner.

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      Possible. The other possibility is that they absolutely do not want a first hand account of what’s going on inside to be available to the press.

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        ABC just had a reporter in another part of the prison, and they pack 80 prisoners to a cell, with 2 toilets, and NOTHING else.

        That’s the part of the prison they didnt mind showing on international television.

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      Because if he were dead, they’d happily announce it, just to make the Libs scream, and scare the shit out of any undocumented people.

      Right now he’s just Schroedinger’s Political Prisoner.