Court hears new arguments over Trump's efforts to return wrongly deported man

By Blake Brittain

(Reuters) - A U.S. justice connected Friday volition measurement claims that President Donald Trump's medication is improperly failing to supply details astir its efforts to instrumentality a antheral to Maryland aft helium was wrongfully deported to a situation successful El Salvador.

The proceeding successful Greenbelt, Maryland marks the latest tribunal trial for the Trump administration's deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose instrumentality U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis and the U.S. Supreme Court person some ordered the authorities to "facilitate," amid concerns that the medication has been failing to comply with her orders.

Xinis volition clasp the proceeding successful Greenbelt, Maryland astatine 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1800 GMT) to see the government's statement that the details Abrego Garcia's attorneys question are confidential authorities secrets. His lawyers contend that the medication is wrongly concealing the information.

"Even arsenic the authorities speaks freely astir Abrego Garcia successful public, successful this litigation it insists connected secrecy," his attorneys said successful a tribunal filing connected Monday.

Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador connected March 15 contempt an bid protecting him from removal. His lawsuit has sparked concerns among Democrats and immoderate ineligible analysts that Trump's medication is consenting to disregard the judiciary, an autarkic and adjacent subdivision of government.

Xinis past period ordered the medication to supply much accusation astir what it was doing to unafraid Abrego Garcia's return. She antecedently said that the medication had not fixed her immoderate accusation of worth astir its efforts.

Administration officials person accused courts of interfering with the enforcement branch's quality to behaviour overseas policy.

They person invoked the authorities secrets privilege, a ineligible doctrine that allows the authorities to artifact the disclosure of accusation that could harm nationalist information interests, to conceal details astir its efforts to instrumentality Abrego Garcia.

The U.S. Department of Justice said successful a tribunal filing this week that Abrego Garcia's lawyers person "all the accusation they need" to corroborate that it has complied with the court's bid connected his return.

(Reporting by Blake Brittain and Mike Scarcella successful Washington; Editing by David Bario)