"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," Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department lawyer who has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Senate Judiciary Committee told The New York 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, forever."
Reuveni was a respected career prosecutor. He spent the first Trump administration defending Trump's immigration policies. But this time, he insists, is different. This time, Justice Department lawyers are being told to mislead the courts, and ignore them.
"The Department of Justice is thumbing its nose at the courts, and putting Justice Department attorneys in an impossible position where they have to choose between loyalty to the agenda of the president and their duty to the court," Reuveni added.
In his whistleblower complaint, Reuveni describes how the administration invoked a rarely used federal law to send immigrants to the notorious Salvadoran prison, even as Emil Bove, formerly Trump's personal lawyer and now a senior Justice Department official and nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals, told subordinates, including Reuveni, that the Justice Department may end up ignoring court orders, using an expletive to make his point.
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