Judge Paula Xinis denied a Trump administration request to further delay sharing what steps, if any, it has taken to bring the mistakenly deported man from El Salvador.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has denied the Trump administration's request to pause the discovery process in the case of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. In a brief order issued this morning, Judge Xinis stated,

Xinis was born in Mineola, New York, graduated from the University of Virginia and went to Yale Law School. She clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was an assistant federal public defender in Maryland and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.