Judge hits Trump admin with sharply worded threat over 'intentional refusal to comply'

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Source: Raw Story

May 13, 2025 3:59PM ET


The Trump Department of Justice faces a new legal deadline after a federal judge warned that its failure to comply with a court order could be treated as an “intentional refusal” to follow the law.

In a sharply worded one-page order, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the Justice Department missed a key deadline to produce a privilege log tied to its claims of the state secrets privilege in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national wrongfully deported to the country in March.

“Evidently missing from the defendants’ filing is the privilege log that this court ordered to be produced,” Xinis wrote in the document posted by Politico's Kyle Cheney. The judge gave the government a Tuesday afternoon deadline to file the log and delivered a warning.

“Failure to file the privilege log or otherwise respond will be construed as an intentional refusal to comply with this court’s orders,” according to the order.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2671999899/

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JUST IN: Judge Xinis says the DOJ has failed to file a privilege log regarding invocation of the state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case.

She's giving them until 3pm or will construe it as "intentional refusal" to comply.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.134.0.pdf
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2:29 PM · May 13, 2025

[democrank]

1. Time for the courts to do something other than slap Trump's wrist.

No man is above the law……right?

[RVN VET71]

5. Trump would answer you:

"I don't know." And then he'd arrest you and send you to El Salvador.

It's interesting to see the surface games being played here. But the real fight is over whether America continues to exist as a Republic of free people or allows itself to be destroyed by the disease that is Trump-MAGA-Project 2025. So far, the disease has the edge.

[Rebl2]

9. Apparently he is

[Orrex]

2. Whew! A sharply-worded letter will certainly rein him in.

[RVN VET71]

6. The letter is the six-shooter in the holster. to show power

The next step is the quick (or slow) draw and the squeezing of the trigger. The concern is whether there are any bullets in the gun.

We should know in a few days.

[travelingthrulife]

3. Complete waste of time if no one arrests the crooks.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. It is just noise

until they actually JAIL someone.

Wake me when that happens.

[artemisia1]

7. "How many divisions does the Pope have?" is a statement variously attributed to Stalin and Hitler when making clear that

only force matters to totalitarians -- not right or wrong. That will be the Mango Mussolini's response to court orders. Can they enforce it? No, then who cares what they say.

[Rebl2]

8. Oh no

another sharply worded letter that will be ignored by the trumpy administration. I’m sure he’s shaking in his cheap shoes.

[republianmushroom]

10. "sharply worded threat", does one thing this will get more than the

previous attempts to get them to comply ? Judge they have told you to pound sand.