Kyle Cheney
Legal Affairs Reporter at POLITICO
Senior legal affairs reporter for @POLITICO with a focus on Jan. 6, democracy and the balance of power in government. Tips: [email protected] NY ➡️ BOS ➡️ DC
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Kyle Cheney |Josh Gerstein
GREENBELT, Maryland — A federal judge ordered an “intense” two-week inquiry into the Trump administration’s refusal to seek the return of a man who was wrongly deported from Maryland to a notorious prison in El Salvador. “To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said at a court hearing Tuesday.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Kyle Cheney |Josh Gerstein
“To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said. Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference April 4, 2025.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Kyle Cheney |Josh Gerstein |Hassan Kanu
Move over Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban. Donald Trump’s latest strongman bromance is with “President B.” Though Trump has long admired foreign authoritarians, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s repressive regime is in some ways the beta test for Trump 2.0. Bukele calls himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” Trump said he would be a dictator on Day 1.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Josh Gerstein |Kyle Cheney
The administration’s position suggests officials do not view the Supreme Court’s order as compelling them to seek Abrego Garcia’s return. A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference last week.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Kyle Cheney |Josh Gerstein
The Trump administration confirmed Saturday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador, is alive but confined in a notorious anti-terrorism prison under the control of the Salvadoran government. “He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” Michael Kozak, a top State Department official, said in a two-page, written declaration submitted to a judge under penalty of perjury.
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Judge Friedrich has turned down, on standing grounds, a request by a group of churches to immediately block the Trump administraiton's policy that could allow immigration raids at places of worship. There's no evidence the raids are imminent, she says. https://t.co/WI6BeU2gec https://t.co/Q3rmePfdow
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