Rachel Maddow-The Trump administration can't stop lying to the courts

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Almost a year into the president’s second term, he appears to be crossing a new Rubicon when it comes to the courts.

Does anyone think that any House or Senate Republicans will condemn the regime’s practice of lying under oath?

“The Trump administration can’t stop lying to the courts”
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— Gary M. Hartman (@garymhartmam.bsky.social) 2025-11-26T19:32:06.458Z

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Do you remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia? The man whom the Trump administration was forced to return to the United States after it admitted that it had wrongfully, illegally — and according to the federal government, accidentally — sent him to a weird black-hole terrorism prison in El Salvador.....

Justice Department lawyers wrote to the judge, “It is now the assessment of the Department of State that the Government of Costa Rica would not accept Petitioner at this time without further negotiations and, likely, additional commitments from the United States.”

But that doesn’t appear to be true. On Friday, Costa Rica’s minister of security, Mario Zamora Cordero, told The Washington Post his country would accept Abrego. “That position that we have expressed in the past remains valid and unchanged to this day,” he said. “Costa Rica’s offer to receive Mr. Abrego Garcia for humanitarian reasons stands.”

This kind of thing has become a pattern for the Trump administration in court. Take the federal government’s attack on Chicago. During a recent appearance in court, Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official overseeing the administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in the city, said he had thrown tear gas into a crowd because protesters had become violent and he had been hit in the head with a rock.

However, he was unable to stand by his own story in court. In an order released last week, the judge in the case wrote that Bovino had “admitted he lied multiple times about the events … that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters.”....

At the beginning of this administration, we were all watching to see if Donald Trump would defy court orders. While we have seen the administration do just that, almost a year in, the federal government also appears to be crossing a different Rubicon: blatantly and repeatedly lying to judges about what it is doing and how it’s doing it.

Lying to any judge especially a federal judge is a dumb idea. The trump DOJ continues to tell lies and getting caught in these lies.

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1. And they will continue to do so until someone holds them accountable

Contempt, perjury, jail time? Something!