The Trump administration’s haphazard deportation scheme sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvadoran slave prison… by accident. OOPS! After a federal lawyer was forced to admit the mistake — because he didn’t want to lie to the court — the administration promptly fired the attorney. The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States, which the administration tried to lie about — possibly with AI hallucinated misquotes — before eventually giving in and bringing him back to the United States and charging him with human trafficking in Tennessee.
But the Tennessee charges were sufficiently flimsy that the government couldn’t prove a compelling reason to keep Abrego Garcia’s in custody and the judge ordered his release pending trial. He returned to Maryland where he would be subject to ICE supervision under his pre-existing status.
Pursuant to that order, he showed up for his check-in today and got arrested. According to the official Homeland Security X account, Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda,” a country where he has no ties at all, but presumably they’ve bought Trump Memecoin or something.
A humble suggestion: if he’s “an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator,” then FUCKING PROVE IT. If this guy is Hannibal Lecter in a Bulls hat, then it shouldn’t be hard, armed with the awesome power of the Department of Justice, to stop being so chickenshit and go secure a conviction!
But there’s a reason Noem and her department are so committed to trying Abrego Garcia exclusively in the court of “Elon Musk’s Home for Wayward Bots And Racists (And Racist Bots!).” They’ve got nothing. The only smoking gun these Keystone Kops managed to come up with was a tattoo and they even had to invent fake captions to make that look incriminating. Total amateur hour. They showed up to court with their proverbial genitals in their hands and when the judge refused to go along absent any evidence, Homeland Security tossed a dart at a map and decided to send him to Uganda.
They’re too chickenshit to go back to court, so they’re dumping Abrego Garcia in Uganda and hoping everyone forgets about him. The Supreme Court’s original order demanding his return provided few details about how each justice saw the case, but did focus on the administration overlooking a preexisting order forbidding his deportation to El Salvador. While the substance of his case hasn’t really changed in the meantime, the administration hopes that a majority of the Supreme Court would be willing to toss their concerns about due process and leave it at “Uganda is not El Salvador, so no harm no foul.”
The only advantage of the unchecked expansion of executive authority right now is that the next president, assuming they actually get in office by 2029, should face no obstacles to systematically firing and prosecuting everyone involved in this disgrace.
Meanwhile, Abrego Garcia is going to be treated like a Carmen Sandiego prop, shipped from country to country in the hope that people stop asking why the Trump administration are too scared to go into a courtroom.
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Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
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The Trump administration’s haphazard deportation scheme sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvadoran slave prison… by accident. OOPS! After a federal lawyer was forced to admit the mistake — because he didn’t want to lie to the court — the administration promptly fired the attorney. The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States, which the administration tried to lie about — possibly with AI hallucinated misquotes — before eventually giving in and bringing him back to the United States and charging him with human trafficking in Tennessee.
But the Tennessee charges were sufficiently flimsy that the government couldn’t prove a compelling reason to keep Abrego Garcia’s in custody and the judge ordered his release pending trial. He returned to Maryland where he would be subject to ICE supervision under his pre-existing status.
Pursuant to that order, he showed up for his check-in today and got arrested. According to the official Homeland Security X account, Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda,” a country where he has no ties at all, but presumably they’ve bought Trump Memecoin or something.
A humble suggestion: if he’s “an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator,” then FUCKING PROVE IT. If this guy is Hannibal Lecter in a Bulls hat, then it shouldn’t be hard, armed with the awesome power of the Department of Justice, to stop being so chickenshit and go secure a conviction!
But there’s a reason Noem and her department are so committed to trying Abrego Garcia exclusively in the court of “Elon Musk’s Home for Wayward Bots And Racists (And Racist Bots!).” They’ve got nothing. The only smoking gun these Keystone Kops managed to come up with was a tattoo and they even had to invent fake captions to make that look incriminating. Total amateur hour. They showed up to court with their proverbial genitals in their hands and when the judge refused to go along absent any evidence, Homeland Security tossed a dart at a map and decided to send him to Uganda.
They’re too chickenshit to go back to court, so they’re dumping Abrego Garcia in Uganda and hoping everyone forgets about him. The Supreme Court’s original order demanding his return provided few details about how each justice saw the case, but did focus on the administration overlooking a preexisting order forbidding his deportation to El Salvador. While the substance of his case hasn’t really changed in the meantime, the administration hopes that a majority of the Supreme Court would be willing to toss their concerns about due process and leave it at “Uganda is not El Salvador, so no harm no foul.”
The only advantage of the unchecked expansion of executive authority right now is that the next president, assuming they actually get in office by 2029, should face no obstacles to systematically firing and prosecuting everyone involved in this disgrace.
Meanwhile, Abrego Garcia is going to be treated like a Carmen Sandiego prop, shipped from country to country in the hope that people stop asking why the Trump administration are too scared to go into a courtroom.
Earlier: Kristi Noem Thinks Habeas Corpus Is A Deportation Spell
DOJ Makes Up Fake Supreme Court Quote About Deportation Hoping No One Notices
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
