Judge presses Trump administration on why it hasn’t returned wrongfully deported man
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the NewsHour. Inside a Maryland courtroom today, another escalation in the legal battle over the man wrongfully deported to El Salvador. |
| 0:09.9 | Judge Policini says she's not yet holding Trump administration officials in contempt, but she said she would not tolerate gamesmanship or grandstanding. |
| 0:19.0 | She is ordering the administration to produce details |
| 0:22.2 | about what, if anything, is being done to bring Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia back to the United States. |
| 0:29.5 | Our White House correspondent Laura Brun-Lopez has the latest. |
| 0:33.0 | William, Judge Sini scolded the Trump administration for doing, quote, nothing to facilitate Kilmara-Breggo-Garcia's release from El Salvador's custody |
| 0:41.2 | and return to the United States. |
| 0:43.2 | The judge also said that comments made by El Salvador and President Naebe Buckelly |
| 0:47.2 | in the Oval Office were not evidence. |
| 0:49.7 | President Buckelly said that he would not return Garcia to the United States. |
| 0:53.9 | For more, I'm joined now by |
| 0:55.4 | Mary McCord, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at |
| 1:00.7 | Georgetown University, and former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security. |
| 1:05.8 | Mary, thanks so much for joining us this evening. You wrote in the Washington Post that Judge |
| 1:10.5 | C. Nees should order senior officials to testify |
| 1:14.0 | what they're doing to facilitate Garcia's return. |
| 1:17.7 | It appears as though the judge maybe did just that today. |
| 1:21.2 | She launched this intense two-week inquiry phase and said that she would allow for |
| 1:26.7 | deposition of up to six administration officials. |
| 1:30.0 | What's your reaction to that? And what do you make of the administration's repeated claims |
| 1:34.4 | that this is in President Bucheli's court? |
| 1:40.0 | So obviously we have two separate things there. And I think Judge Zinas did exactly what she had to do at this point, because last Friday she ordered daily progress reports, not progress reports, a daily declaration by a person with individual knowledge, a government official with individual personal knowledge, answering the three questions she had. Where is Mr. Obrego-Garcia? That question did |
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