This Is What... Official Obstruction Looks Like: Noem Edition -- At Fourth Of July 2025.

Welp. Not surprising, in the least -- but ugly, just the same. Noem / Tangerine / Miller / Rubio claim they need 14 days(?!) to figure out "their position" on. . . whether what a USDC Judge orders. . . DOES ACTUALLY bind. . . them. Damn.

Below is the [non-responsive] response, to an order asking why the government cannot understand that Mr. Khalil need not report to ICE, periodically. . . BECAUSE THIS SAME JUDGE ORDERED that he need not do so -- on the record, in open court, nearly two weeks ago, now. [Even the Noemites recite this fact, in a prior letter, filed with the court earlier THIS week.]

So this poppycock, about vacation schedules and needing 14 days. . . is bad faith / obstruction, exclusively. See the full one pager, and the operative [non-] bit of it, this morning:

. . .Respondents (the “Government”) submit this letter in response to the Court’s Order, ECF No. 334, and to Petitioner Mahmoud Khalil’s letter regarding compliance with the preliminary injunction (“PI”), ECF No. 332. Given the differing positions regarding the scope of the PI, the Government recommends that the parties engage in motions practice over the PI’s interpretation.

The Government declines to offer a substantive response at this time, [confidential note to the AUSAs: you cannot decline to respond to federal court orders, unless you want the Judge to deem your position. . . waived -- and simply order relief summarily to Mr. Khalil, including his attorneys' fees and damages. . .] because Petitioner’s request is for a status conference. The Government is reserving its substantive arguments for when Petitioner presents his arguments. And such a response by the Government requires time for the undersigned to confer with the various interested parties, draft a response, and obtain proper review. The Government therefore requests that the Court set a briefing schedule to allow the parties a reasonable time and opportunity to set forth more fully their respective legal positions, including permitting the Government fourteen (14) days to respond to Petitioner’s filing. . . .

Please be advised that lead counsel, Dhruman Y. Sampat, will be out of the office and traveling internationally from July 22 to 29, 2025. . . .

What a pack of. . . putzes. [Their various vacations cannot take precedence over resolving non-compliance with federal court decrees.] It would be actually be comical -- as an exemplar of the banality. . . of evil -- if a man's life (lawfully in the US as a student, married to a US citizen -- with a new baby) was not being disrupted wrongfully, thereby. Barbecue and fireworks, tonight. Onward.

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