President Donald J Trump, flanked by Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday, March 24, 2025. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
According to a complaint published last month, Erez Reuveni, a former immigration lawyer at the Department of Justice, blew the whistle on an extraordinary suggestion that the department would need to consider telling the courts presiding over immigration cases “f**k you” and ignore a judge’s order blocking the hasty and hushed deportation of migrants to El Salvador.
Reuveni’s case hits home because of its parallels to my own. In December 2001, as a legal adviser to the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, I advised the criminal division that an FBI interrogation of “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh without his lawyer would be unethical. When I was informed three days later that he had been interrogated despite that warning, I advised that the interview might have to be sealed and used only for national security and intelligence-gathering purposes, and not for criminal prosecution. Three weeks later, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the Justice Department was filing a criminal complaint against Lindh, and in another three weeks, he announced an indictment, insisting that Lindh’s rights “have been carefully, scrupulously honored.”
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