Breitbart By Paul Bois
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 premature. While we fully respect the Executive’s robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision,” wrote Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, even argued that the Trump administration has asserted “a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order…
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