A former Department of Justice lawyer possesses documents allegedly showing that the Trump administration pushed to defy court rulings and pressured DOJ attorneys to choose between ethics and the president’s agenda, The New York Times reported. Erez Reuveni, a whistleblower, told The New York Times he is alarmed by the administration’s disregard for judges and due process for migrants residing in the country illegally, and said he is willing to testify.
Reuveni said he was fired in April after defending the Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case and allegedly defying a superior’s order.
Reuveni told The Times that the Saturday, March 15 deportation flights illustrate how the Trump administration ignored legal standards and due process for migrants like Abrego Garcia. The migrants were rapidly deported and sent to CECOT, a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
According to the Trump administration, law enforcement confirmed Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang. Abrego Garcia has since been flown back to the United States from El Salvador to face human trafficking charges.
“If they can do this sort of thing to Abrego Garcia, to 238 people that nobody knows, and send them to CECOT forever with no due process, they can do that to anyone,” Reuveni told The Times. “It should be deeply, deeply worrisome to anyone who cares about their safety and their liberty that the government can, without showing evidence to anyone of anything, spirit you away on a plane to wherever,...
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