Decide Paula Xinis postponed discovery in Kilmar Abrego Garcia for one week in response to the Trump Administration’s request for a delay.
The decide didn’t give a purpose for her choice to postpone the invention.
“The Courtroom has reviewed Defendants’ Movement to Keep and Plaintiffs’ Response. With the settlement of events, the Courtroom hereby ORDERS that discovery shall be stayed till April 30, 2025, at 5:00 PM,” the decide wrote.
JUST IN: Decide Xinis has postponed discovery within the Abrego Garcia case for every week, with the settlement of each side. The reason being unclear nevertheless it follows a sealed submitting from the federal government this AM. pic.twitter.com/10Vl3NmVBS
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 24, 2025
On Wednesday morning the Trump DOJ in a sealed movement asked the decide to pause discovery within the case for seven days.
On Tuesday night Decide Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, went off on the Trump Administration after a convention to handle the federal government’s dispute over discovery within the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian nationwide who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration decide ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the damaging MS-13 gang, faraway from the US.

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Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT jail and the decide is attempting to power the Trump Administration to disclose particulars of diplomatic discussions.
The decide accused the Trump Administration of defying her courtroom order and ordered the federal government to supply extra particulars by Wednesday about its choice to ship Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
Decide Xinis accused the Trump Administration of performing in “unhealthy religion” and ‘obstructing’ efforts to assemble extra info on its choice to ship Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
“Defendants’ objection displays a willful and unhealthy religion refusal to adjust to discovery obligations. The objection is overruled. Defendants are due to this fact ordered to complement their solutions in full compliance with the Federal Guidelines of Civil Process. Their solutions should embody information aware of the requests, not indirect and incomplete, non-specific characterizations,” Decide Xinis wrote in an 8-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.