The Ministry of Justice said on Friday that it was considering calling the state secrets in its ongoing battle before the Court of Deportation in the Trump administration to El Salvador, a tool that can allow them to block certain information for national security purposes.
In an announcement submitted on Friday morning, US Deputy Prosecutor Todd Blanche told the provincial court judge, James Bouasberg, that he is aware of discussions at the cabinet level that calls for the privilege of state secrets.
Blanche said: Feeling this privilege “is a serious matter requires careful study of national security and foreign relations, and it cannot be taken properly within only 24 hours.”
This announcement came after Boasberg issued a final date on Thursday to the court to provide information about the deportations that sent the Venezuelan citizens to El Salvador during the weekend, at the same time, he issued an order in the Emergency Court temporarily preventing the Trump administration from doing this.
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President Donald Trump’s lawyers left, Todd Blanche, Emile Bouv and John Lauro, left the Federal Court on September 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Boasberg said in a severe order on Thursday evening that the Trump administration failed to comply with the back position to obtain information-even after the administration gave the option of providing information subject to the seal-and indicated that the court was not sent instead only a declaration of six paragraphs “from regional ice officers in Texas, who said that the Trump administration was considering calling” the case of case instructions. ”
Boasberg denounced that the advertisement is “sadly sufficient”, noting that regional ice staff cannot be talked about to inform the high -level Cabinet Discussions Court and suggested a higher person in the federal government to do so.
The Blanche file just came hours before government lawyers are entitled to court on Friday afternoon to testify before Boasberg in a hearing about their request to evacuate the case.
Boasberg indicated in a blatant order on Thursday that the government “evades its obligations” in the failure to provide its requests for flights on flights, even after the deadline extended to do so and said that they could provide materials under the seal.
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President Donald Trump arrives with Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi to speak at the Ministry of Justice in Washington, DC, on Friday, March 14, 2025. (Get on AP)
In the case, it is whether the government failed to comply with the emergency restriction order on Saturday, which prevented the Trump administration from using the War Law 1798 to The deportation of Venezuelan citizensIncluding the alleged members of the Trine de Aragoa gang, for 14 days. Boasberg also ordered any flights in the air to return to the American soil immediately.
Hours later, however, a plane carrying hundreds of us immigrants, including Venezuelan citizens who were removed under the law concerned, arrived at El Salvador.
In the days after that, the government lawyers rejected Participation in the court On deportation flights, and whether the plane (or aircraft) of immigrants have left the United States after the judge ordered them not to do this, noting the protection of national security.
Previously, Boasberg asked government lawyers to provide information about the number of aircraft that left the United States on Saturday who were carrying people who were deported “only on the basis of” this announcement, and the number of individuals who were on every plane, where the planes landed, and the time of each plane from the United States and from where.
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He previously warned of the Trump administration of the consequences this week if he is supposed to violate his matter. The Trump administration, for its part, challenges its order at the Court of Appeal on Monday.
However, at least one plane landed with migrants who later deported in the evening in El Salvador. ”