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Michael Popak (9:40)

They said facilitate the rel Facilitate the release from custody in El Salvador. Judge Zinnis in her amended order said you got to take all available steps to facilitate the return to the United States, which is consistent with the Supreme Court's decision. Get your quotes right. It matters. I tell my people that work for me. If you have proofreading errors or bugs and you cite things wrong in your papers that you file with the court, you're just undermining your own credibility because the judge thinks if you can't spell something right, if you got typos, if you got quotes wrong from cases, you've lost all credibility. What else is wrong? I call it the cockroach theory. Because if you see one error in a filing by a lawyer, I assure you it's not just one cockroach. If you think you got One cockroach in your house. You don't. You got one cockroach that comes out one at a time. You got a dozen cockroaches. And that's what happens here. Judges go, I can't believe a word this person writes or says. But that just shows you they don't care about the federal courts. They completely have disdain the Trump administration. They don't even try to get things right. Here's what the letter says from the Abrego Garcia side and you can see where we're going with both sanctions for failure to comply with the discovery. They're trying to get ready for depositions. There's five depositions set in this case. One that's supposed to be for today, but you need documents you know properly in order to depose. Here's what they said on the eve of the first court order deposition concerning the government's failure to comply with this court's orders, the government responded to the plaintiff's discovery request by producing nothing of substance. Its interrogatory responses I just read to you one are similarly non responsive. First, the government artificially narrows the court's order to avoid complying with its obligations. We just saw a version of that. For example. The government refuses to respond to interrogatories it claims are based on the false premise that the United States can or has been ordered to facilitate a Brago Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador. That is exactly what the Supreme Court ordered them to do, word for word. Despite. And they go on, despite the Supreme Court's clear holding that the order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from the custody in El Salvador.

Michael Popak (12:04)

Which part of release from custody in.

Michael Popak (12:06)

El Salvador do you not understand? They also say on page two, the government refuses to answer several interrogatories or provide documents based on an assertion of privilege, some sort of governmental privilege or some sort of state secrets privilege. But they haven't done it properly as required by the case law. And then they lay out the discovery schedule, the deposition schedule from the. Then they insert what the plaintiff. What the government's position is. Listen to the government's position. As an initial matter, the defendants have in all respects and in light of the expedited nature of this discovery, put forward a good faith effort to provide appropriate answers. Already you know that's a lie. Consistent with the Supreme Court's instructions, the discovery here is aimed at answering the current location and custody of Abrego. It's actually Brego Garcia steps taken to facilitate his return to The United States. We haven't seen any of that in any of the filings. There's been about seven or eight different daily reports filed by the Department of Justice and other people there. Not one of them have said what steps have been taken. They say, oh, he's been moved to a new jail. He slept in a bed last night. But that's not what's been required. The government suggests that. They then go on to say the plaintiff suggests that the government has refused to answer interrogatories or produce documents on assertions of privilege. That statement is at best misleading because we provided some answers, but not all answers. I've done this for a long time. This is a supremely weak response by the government that's facing down the barrel of a federal judge that's been affirmed 9, 0 by the United States Supreme Court and twice 3. 0 each. So six different judges of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She's riding high. There's, she's turbocharged. Judge Zenis, I would you pick if you think Boseberg and Zenith in the Supreme Court are the right courts to pick on for your political agenda, then you, you, the Trump administration, are more demented than I thought you were. I'm going to continue to follow the next steps. Here's the next steps that I'll come back here on the Midas Dutch network. We'll talk about it. One, Zinnis is going to hold a status conference. Two, she's not going to be happy with the responses by the federal government and she's going to start sanctioning them. Daily fines, maybe $10,000 a day, $100,000 a day. She's going to start finding people in contempt and that's going to be civil contempt on her own accord because it's in front of her with her inherent authority. And then she's going to let give the other side more discovery, more opportunity, more depositions as she tries to bring this land this plane. And at the end of the day, she's going to find the Trump administration in contempt. Could be criminal contempt, where she makes a referral for prosecution, or certainly civil contempt, which could also end up with somebody in jail under the civil enforcement powers of a judge. And you're here on the Midas Touch Network. Take a minute, hit the subscribe button, and then on top of that, come on over to Legal A F M T n for the YouTube channel over there that I curate and help us continue to grow that channel as well. Till my next reporting, I'm Michael Popak in collaboration with the Midas Touch network. We just launched the Legal AF YouTube channel. Help us build this pro democracy channel where I'll be curating the top stories the intersection of law and politics. Go to YouTube now and free subscribe @legalafmtn. That's egalafmtn.