The Department of Justice has put an attorney who worked on the case of a Salvadoran national mistakenly deported from the United States on paid leave.
Erez Reuveni, a DOJ attorney for nearly 15 years, was suspended with pay for “engaging in conduct prejudicial to your client” and failing to “follow a directive from your superiors,” according to a letter sent to him from the DOJ.
Reuveni represented the Trump administration on Friday at a hearing where a federal judge ruled that Trump officials violated immigration law by deporting Kilmar Abrego-Garcia to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Trump officials must now “facilitate and effectuate” Abrego-Garcia’s return by Monday night after they admitted in court filings that his deportation was an “administrative error.”
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In the hearing, however, Reuveni was
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