The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday declined the Trump administration’s request to lift a judge’s order demanding it “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man in the United States illegally who was deported to a prison in El Salvador.
“The Justice Department appealed U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis’s clarified directive, which she issued last week after the Supreme Court upheld the thrust of her original order pushing for the man’s return,” reported The Hill.
The 4th Circuit declined to lift Xini’s order just one day after the Trump administration filed for the appeal. In the unanimous three-judge panel, U.S. Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote that the appeal was “extraordinary and premature.”
“The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and
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