🚨🚨🚨Garcia's attorneys are not happy and they likely have a judge willing to play along. They now want discovery to learn what Trump Administration did to facilitate Garcia's return so allow court to hold Administration in contempt. 1/
2/ Garcia's attorney's seem to think they also have a "get out of jail free card" because SCOTUS ordered Trump to treat Garcia as if he hadn't been wrongfully removed & they only discovered evidence of his crime after that. 
3/ And they think they can now challenge what happens to Garcia AFTER the criminal case. That is not ripe, however, because it depends on the outcome of that case.
4/ By law, Judge can still hold contempt proceedings but she'd be foolish to do so because most of the conversations and decision making would be protected by executive privilege or attorney-client privilege and she won't win that battle.
5/ But Judge Boasberg opted for the torch the executive approach so I doubt this judge will be any more reasons.
6/6*reasonable. Full response by Garcia's attorneys. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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