U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis is the latest judge at odds with the Trump administration. In a scathing rebuke, she has characterized the government as acting in “bad faith” by refusing to provide information about what it has done to try to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador,

President Trump’s aides have dug in on insisting that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador after the administration had admitted to an “administrative error.”

A day after a judge ordered the DOJ to more fully address the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the administration has asked to pause discovery in the case.