Trump DOJ Uses State Secrets Claim To Stonewall Abrego Garcia

Originally published at: Trump DOJ Uses State Secrets Claim To Stonewall Abrego Garcia

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. We’re coming up on two months since Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongfully removed from the United States despite an immigration judge order barring it and sent to a prison in El Salvador. Two months of…

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The news, but first, brace yourself with a cat meme…

And happy belated Mothers day, all.

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Narcoleptic Buddha

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Hi Everyone, here are a couple photos from St John’s Newfoundland. Cape Spear is the most easterly land mass in North America. The lighthouse is one of the regions oldest.

Have a great day. I’m off on a hike to Signal Hill. What happened there?

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Where has this sort of thing happened before? Companies seeking profit by providing services to government to harm targeted groups.

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first transatlantic wireless communication in 1901

Yes, I had to google it to get it right.

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At this point, isn’t the preponderance of evidence sufficient that it is prima facie that the administration is consistently on the wrong side of the law in these matters? You just don’t go to these lengths to deny, stall, obfuscate if you’re in the right.

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But the upshot of raising tenuous state secrets claims to thwart discovery in the case is to further stonewall and delay, Abrego Garcia argues:
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What state secrets did Garcia have?

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I feel that RFK Jr’s grandchildren deserve better. It’s not their fault they were born into a kooky family.

Also the US certainly deserves better.

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Two months of incarceration for a deportation that the Trump administration admits was an error, and two months of stonewalling federal courts by the Trump administration

Sounds to me like we have more than one government – Trump’s junta and America’s democracy.

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The Arms of Krupp
The Airlines of Avelo

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Do we?

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The name, “Signal Hill” would seem to be a clue.

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Trump/Musk/DOGE 2.0 is all about privatizing government. Some private company is going to do all of it. Not all of them will be owned by Trump adjacents, Musk or the billionaire boys club.

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Check his bathroom.

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“Trump is having a hard time keeping his eyes open…”

He never looks particularly wide eyed. Part of that may be due to his advanced age. He may be due for an “eyelid tuck.”

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I don’t know, there is a Mount Pleasant, Iowa and it is neither. :wink:

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Of course, but as an elder Canadian, my recollection was in the ballpark :slightly_smiling_face:.

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