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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge blasts Trump administration for refusing to answer questions about MS-13 in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case

The federal judge presiding over the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia blasted Donald Trump’s administration for trying to “obstruct” efforts to learn more about the government’s wrongful deportation of a Maryland father with “vague” and “evasive” answers to court-ordered questions.

Judge Paula Xinis torched government attorneys for their “willful and bad faith refusal” to respond to court orders for details about Abrego Garcia and their “unsubstantiated assertions of privilege” for their “specious” attempts to “evade compliance.”

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