Fed up Trump-appointed judge drops BAD NEWS for Trump in court

You're watching the legal breakdown. Glenn, Donald Trump just got rebuked in. court, but it was from another judge who. he himself appointed. Seems to be a. recurring theme here. Can you explain. what just happened in court? Yeah, Brian. So, there's another federal court. judge in Maryland named Stephanie. Gallagher. Again, as you say, appointed. by Donald Trump who pushed back hard on. the Trump administration trying to. convince her that she should allow. somebody to remain in that prison in El. Salvador. another Venezuelan immigrant.

uh who was wrongfully deported kind of. had has shades of kind of is reminiscent. of the Abrego Garcia case, right? This. this one has a little bit of a twist. So, this young man's name is Daniel. Lozano Kamargo. He came to the United. States seeking asylum as a 17-year-old. unaccompanied minor. And here's the. thing, there is a courtapproved. settlement agreement in 2024 whereby the. federal government said it will not.

deport people who came here as. unaccompanied minors who are seeking. asylum and their asylum case is sort of. underway and progressing. They will not. deport them until their asylum case has. been decided, has been resolved. And. guess what? Daniel Lozano Kamargo's case. was ongoing. It was pending. It was not. resolved. He was protected against. deportation under that courtapproved. settlement agreement and order. But.

Donald Trump's immigration officials. grabbed him up, stuffed him on a plane, and put him in that same prison down in. El Salvador. And the judge is none. pleased. Here is the procedural posture. of it right now because we just had this. development. So, the Trump. administration came into court with. something called an indicative ruling. It sounds suspect. It looked suspect. when I looked at it. It's basically a. form with some blanks that some. immigration officer filled in. And.

here's what they tried to pull on Judge. Gallagher. They said, "Judge, look, maybe we shouldn't have deported him. Maybe he didn't enjoy his due process. rights. Maybe we did violate this 2024. court approved settlement agreement. where the federal government said it. wouldn't do this kind of thing. But. look, somebody's filled out this form. and this form says, "Well, well, if he. did go through his asylum process, he. would not be approved for asylum. anyway." Can you can you feel how fishy.

this kind of of an ask is from the Trump. administration? And Brian, this is. priceless. Let me read for our viewers. what Judge Gallagher said in the. response of that laughable ask from the. Trump administration. She said, "The. indicative ruling produced by the US. citizenship and immigration services. essentially prejudges the outcome of. Lozano Kamargo's asylum proceedings.

before they take place." And the judge. compared it to a court deciding not to. hold a jury trial because the suspect. was caught red-handed or confessed. The. judge said, quote, "It's not a. substitute for the process that was. due." Process is important. We don't. skip to the end and say, "We all know. how this is going to end up." My order, says the judge requires that he be. returned to this country to get the.

process. She didn't mince words. She. didn't flinch. She didn't back down. And. she is telling the Trump administration. to facilitate the return of Daniel. Lozano Kamargo. Glenn, what do you make. of the fact that this is now the second. Trump appointed judge in just the last. couple of days who've handed down. rulings that run completely counter to. either Trump or or GOP orthodoxy. We. just uh had Allison Riggs uh the North. Carolina state supreme court justice go.

in front of a Trump appointed judge in. in a federal district court and he ruled. against um all the the Republican. candidate in that race Jefferson. Griffin's efforts to discard 60 some odd. thousand votes that was duly shut down. by a Trump appointed judge. Now just. today we have this Trump appointed judge. pushing back against the administration. of the guy who appointed him. It tells. me, Brian, that the black robe can be. very liberating because everyone who. becomes a federal judge is appointed by.

either a president or a Democrat. president. So, they all likely have some. sort of, you know, political ideology. that drives them, has driven them. through life. But let me tell you, Brian, after 30 years of appearing. before countless judges, once they dawn. the robe and they have complete. independence and they can never be. removed from their position as a judge. unless they engage in serious. misconduct, it's very liberating. And. even the Trump appointed judges, the.

vast majority of them seem to be setting. aside whatever political, you know, ideology they might have and deciding. the cases based on the facts and the law. without fear or favor and certainly. without favor to the president who. appointed them to the federal bench. And. these are fairly easy calls I would say. as a career prosecutor when you look at. the evidence and the law and the. constitution which provides due process. for every person. It doesn't say for.

every citizen, for every person. And the. Supreme Court has ruled over and over. and over again that that includes people. who are in the United States of America. illegally. And none of these Trump. judges seem to be willing to depart from. the law or that constitutional. principle. So this also suggests to me, Brian, that Donald Trump isn't being. straight with the American people when. he says that the judges who are ruling. against him are lunatic radical.

left-wing judges. Well, to that exact point, I want to. read an excerpt from the ruling that. Judge Gallagher handed down. Again, a. Trump appointee. I don't think that this. is a case about whether or not Christian. is going to eventually get asylum. Whether he ultimately receives asylum is. not the issue. The issue is and always. has been one of process. And so again, this is going back to this issue of due. process. And I find it especially. interesting because the issue of. immigration more broadly is one where of. course Donald Trump generally polls.

better than Democrats. But because he's. decided to go so far as to lose the plot. here um and really engage in this whole. thing where he's usurping all of the. power from the courts and deciding to. eliminate this whole concept of due. process. He is now pulling net negative. on immigration and net negative 21. points as it relates to the illegal. deportation of Kilimar or Garcia. So, I. find it so interesting that Donald Trump. basically took his best issue and. squandered it because he's decided to. make it a referendum not on on legal.

deportations, but precisely on the. opposite on taking away due process and. engaging in these illegal deportations. to the point where even Trump appointees. are saying this has nothing to do with. asylum. This is about the president just. trying to eliminate by fiat the very. concept of due process. Yeah, he's. completely squandered the support he had. on this issue because I think we can all. agree that the immigration system ought. to be reformed. Of course, that's. something that Congress has never seemed.

to have an appetite to take up. But what. seems to be more important to the. American people as reflected in those. polls is the rule of law and you know a. a presidential administration that will. abide by the constitution. So, you know, he has completely lost the opportunity. to to become more popular from the way. he handled the immigration uh issue and. he has made himself far less popular. Glenn, we are seeing more and more. instances where the Trump administration. seems to be taking a deport first, ask.

questions later approach. We've seen. that they did it with Kilmer Brea. Garcia. We're seeing it in this. particular case right here. Is there any. preemptive action that these judges. could take or that anybody could take so. that we don't lose these people who've. been illegally deported because Trump. then pretends that he can't get them. back once they're no longer in the US's. jurisdiction? or do we constantly just. have to be, you know, chasing after the. rabbit, so to speak, where we all know. Trump is going to continue employing. this tack uh and and that we have to.

then try to engage in this big, you. know, recovery mission after the fact. where we are relying on foreign. dictators to be willing to abide by. court rulings here in the US. Yeah, Brian, it's a great question and there. actually has been a significant. development in recent days where uh. another judge who happens to be a Trump. appointee, a federal court judge out in. Texas, Fernando Rodriguez, said, um, guess what, Trump administration, you. can't deport anybody under the Alien.

Enemies Act. Why? because it requires. that we be at war with Venezuela or that. we be subject to an invasion or an. incursion from the Venezuelan military. or the Venezuelan government and we are. not. So there actually is at least one. federal court order in place that has. sort of prospectively told the Trump. administration, stop it, you can't do it. anymore. Now, it's an open question as. to whether the Trump administration uh.

will dain to abide by that. Um I believe. they're already appealing it to the. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, but. the federal courts are trying. And. you're right, because there is one judge. who actually wrote, I believe, in. another case involving the Trump. administration that the administration. is acting like the Queen of Hearts in. Alice in Wonderland, right? Guilty. verdict first and trial later. And that. is exactly what they tried to do in the. case we are discussing by presenting. this indicative ruling. Well, if we did.

give him his constitutional rights, he. would lose. And the judge said, "That's. not the point. Give him his. constitutional rights." Right, Glenn? What happens next in this particular. instance as it relates to this case uh. and this ruling handed down by a Trump. appointed judge? Well, it was on April. 23rd that Judge Gallagher ordered the. Trump administration to facilitate the. return of Lozano Kamargo and instead. they presented this, you know, Mickey. Mouse piece of paper that said, "Well, he would lose anyway if we did honor his.

constitutional rights." But her order. remains in effect and I don't think we. have an update on what the next steps. are or when we can expect to see this. case back in court. But I have a feeling. now that Judge Gallagher has rejected. this latest attempt to basically. circumvent her order, we're probably. going to hear more about this case in in. the next couple of days. Okay. Well, we. will of course stay on top of this case. as well as any other cases that relate. to this issue of Donald Trump trying to. uh subvert the judicial process and. eliminate due process for those who are.

entitled to it. Uh for those who are. watching right now, if you want to. follow along, please make sure to. subscribe. The links to both of our. channels right here on this screen. It's. the best way to support our work and the. best way to support independent media. more broadly. I'm Brian Taylor Cohen and. I'm Glenn Kersner. You're watching the. Legal Breakdown. [Music].