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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Order in the court. Here comes the judge. [1]
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Date: 2025-04-18
New York Times:
Appeals Panel Allows Investigation Into Whether U.S. Defied Orders in Deportation Case A federal appeals court ruled that a district court judge could move ahead with an investigation into whether the Trump administration had violated court orders when it refused to “facilitate” the release of a Maryland man from a prison in El Salvador. In a strongly worded order, a three-judge panel said the government’s request to block an inquiry by Judge Paula Xinis in the case of the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, was “both extraordinary and premature.”
USA Today:
Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador The meeting appeared to occur at the hotel Van Hollen had been staying at in San Salvador. Van Hollen’s office declined to release additional information and indicated the senator would hold a news briefing on April 18. Meanwhile, Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, said she only knew where her husband had been taken based on news photos of men with their heads down being led through the notorious CECOT prison. She recognized her husband's scars and tattoos. Meanwhile, Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, said she only knew where her husband had been taken based on news photos of men with their heads down being led through the notorious CECOT prison. She recognized her husband's scars and tattoos. Vasquez Sura said her "prayers have been answered" after Van Hollen's announcement. "The efforts of my family and community in fighting for justice are being heard, because I now know that my husband is alive. God is listening, and the community is standing strong," she said in a statement to USA TODAY.
x “It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process..”
https://t.co/xh8fDZyeQP — Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) April 17, 2025
New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship The Trump administration had asked the justices to lift a nationwide pause on the policy as lower court challenges continue. The Supreme Court on Thursday announced that it would hear arguments in a few weeks over President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The brief order by the justices was unsigned and gave no reasoning, as is typical in such emergency cases. But the move is a sign that the justices consider the matter significant enough that they would immediately consider it, rather than letting it play out in lower courts. The justices announced they would defer any consideration of the government’s request to lift a nationwide pause on the policy until they heard oral arguments, which they set for May 15.
Will Bunch/Philadelphia Inquirer:
Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the Jenga piece that could topple the American Experiment The Trump regime lies about a Salvadoran laborer and dad because the truth of his humanity could unravel their dream of autocracy. Even in a nation that, just in my lifetime, has endured the absurd falsehoods of LBJ’s Vietnam War, Richard Nixon’s Watergate and Donald Trump’s first term, the ugly and completely fabricated words about Abrego Garcia coming from the White House, the Justice Department, and Homeland Security are the most hideous governmental untruths I’ve ever heard. It’s bad enough that the core of the government’s case for Abrego Garcia’s deportation and harsh treatment — an evidence-free charge of ties to the Salvadoran gang MS-13 — is based on a Chicago Bulls cap, an informant who placed him in a locale (Long Island) he’s never even visited, and a cop who at roughly the same time was kicked off the force for lying.
x CNBC (Hart/POS) poll
President Trump approval
Disapprove 51%
Approve 44%
Generic ballot
Democratic 48%
Republican 46%
4/9-4/13
https://t.co/Tihl1kLMFv — Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) April 17, 2025
New York Times:
Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his allies. It is also not clear how hard and how far Mr. Trump will push the notion that those deals now leave many of the nation’s biggest, most prestigious and best-resourced firms at his beck and call. There is no indication yet that he has sought to deploy any of them on a particular issue. But the emerging gap between what the firms initially thought they agreed to and what Mr. Trump says they can be used for shows how the deals did little to insulate them from his whims. Further demands on the firms from Mr. Trump could raise the potential for conflicts with paying clients and could further fuel internal dissension.
The UnPopulist:
Executive Watch Tracking presidential abuses of power To go directly to Executive Watch, click here. We've divided presidential abuses of power into five categories: the 5 Ps. Personal Grift
Political Corruption
Presidential Retribution
Power Consolidation
Policy Illegality This post will serve as a continually updated repository of all our Executive Watch entries, sorted by presidential abuse category.
x We really did it.
We took a growing US manufacturing economy, declared it broken, started a trade war, and ... broke US manufacturing.
In last 48 hours:
- Philly Fed Survey: "New orders fell sharply, from 8.7 in March to -34.2, its lowest reading since April 2020"
- NY Fed… pic.twitter.com/cv1UpX6LyP — Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 17, 2025
Jasmine Crockett takes on Donald Trump, playing golf while the market drops:
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