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…

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    It just temporary, until they finish the 30,000 bed facility theyre building in Guantanamo.

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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        15 hours ago

        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.