Peter Keisler in CNN
Board Member Peter Keisler was quoted in CNN‘s recent coverage of the Trump administration’s ongoing conflict with the judiciary, specifically its inaction in response to court orders requiring the government to provide judges with information.
Tierney Sneed writes:
Days later, the administration still has not provided direct responses to the judge’s queries about how the government was working to bring back the migrant. Instead, at a Tuesday hearing, Ensign tried to point to Oval Office remarks from Trump, the Salvadoran president and Bondi.
Xinis shut down that offering – noting that the off-handed comments from President Nayib Bukele to a reporter would not be accepted in a court of law – and she ordered two weeks of “intense” discovery, including with depositions, to get to the bottom of the administration’s inaction on her order.
“By stonewalling judges’ requests for information, they’re just making it that much harder for judges to enforce compliance,” Peter Keisler, a former top Justice Department official who served as an acting attorney general under George W. Bush, told CNN.