Friday's Final Word
Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | December 12, 2025
Shipwreckedcrew's Port-O-Call: One of two things is true — either Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland understands the issue and is being intellectually dishonest, or she is trapped into the mindset of an Article III District Judge and can’t navigate her way through the statutes and case law of the Immigration and Nationality Act that she’s barred by Congress from interpreting.
Her Order dated October 11, requiring the Government to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE custody on the finding that there is no lawful basis to hold him reflects a basic misunderstanding of the terminology and nomenclature of Immigration law and Immigration courts.
She is the walking embodiment of the reason Congress divested District Judges of jurisdiction to involve themselves in individual immigration cases where their biases simply bring the process to a halt. This one district judge has now held up the lawful removal of an illegal alien for nearly six months because of a long and continuing fit of pique over what she sees as unfair treatment that began with an administrative error.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/12/12/fridays-final-word-n3809826
