June 04, 2025
A Maryland federal judge gave a partial win Wednesday to more than a dozen news organizations pushing to intervene in the suit challenging the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, ordering some sealed documents to be made public.
May 28, 2025
The Trump administration urged a Maryland federal judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, saying the court lacks jurisdiction over the matter because he is no longer in U.S. custody.
May 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Maryland federal judge that more than a dozen news organizations looking to unseal records in litigation challenging the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador have no right to access sensitive discovery materials.
May 16, 2025
A Maryland federal judge said Friday that the Trump administration had provided scant explanation for invoking state secrets privilege to shield information in litigation challenging the removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
April 24, 2025
The Maryland federal judge overseeing the case to get Kilmar Abrego Garcia out of prison in El Salvador and back to the United States has paused discovery into whether the Trump administration is complying with her order to do just that.
April 17, 2025
A Fourth Circuit panel on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's "extraordinary" emergency motion to stay a discovery order in litigation over Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation to El Salvador, while cautioning the administration against ignoring federal courts, saying it could degrade both executive and judicial branch powers and that "law in time will sign its epitaph."
April 15, 2025
A Maryland federal judge ordered two weeks of discovery and depositions of at least four Trump administration officials into whether it's complying with her order to get back a Maryland man sent to a Salvadoran megaprison, saying that the updates she's gotten so far have shown that "nothing has been done."
April 11, 2025
A Maryland federal judge on Friday said it was "extremely troubling" that a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer could not share the whereabouts of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison or the steps being taken to return him, ordering daily updates about whether the government is taking measures to bring the man back.
April 07, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts hit pause Monday on a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there, freeing the administration from a late night compliance deadline.
April 04, 2025
A Maryland federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to bring back a Maryland man who was deported and imprisoned in El Salvador due to an "administrative error," finding his removal likely violates the Immigration and Nationality Act.