'Damning': Expert says Trump DOJ basically told 'you shouldn't be in our courtroom'
Former Pentagon special counsel and federal prosecutor Ryan Goodman delivered a blunt interpretation of an appeals court ruling on Thursday that blasted the Trump administration’s handling of deportations.
“It’s just damning,” Goodman, an NYU School of Law professor said on CNN.
The comments came after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Department of Justice’s request to block orders that the Trump administration facilitate the release of wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a blistering ruling.
Goodman said Thursday on CNN’s “OutFront” that he was stunned by how fast the appeals court acted.
“They actually did it within 24 hours, and they did it even before the plaintiffs filed their briefs in response to the government's brief,” according to the legal expert.
“They're basically saying, ‘you shouldn't be in our courtroom,’ that this is really improper to be going after the judge for this order now after the Supreme Court has backed her up,” Goodman said.
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He added that the Reagan-appointed Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote the opinion for a unanimous panel, and that the conservative jurist had previously upheld the judge that Trump’s DOJ was trying to reverse.
“He previously said when he upheld her on the first time that this is a path to lawlessness, when he said that the Supreme Court hadn't even ruled.” Goodman said. “Since then, the Supreme Court ruled in her favor to say, ‘this is correct, she is right to order you to facilitate Mr. Abrego Garcia’s release.'”
Goodman concluded that he thinks the Supreme Court will deliver a decision in the case in a way that will “protect themselves and protect the court.”
“I think they'll respond also probably very quickly and dismissively,” he predicted.