The Lawyer
A senior Justice Department immigration lawyer was put on
indefinite leave after questioning the Trump administration’s decision
to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador — one day after representing the
government in court, reported The New York Times.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche suspended Erez Reuveni,
the acting deputy director of the department’s immigration litigation division,
for failing to “follow a directive from your superiors,” according to a letter
sent to Mr. Reuveni and obtained by The New York Times.
Mr. Reuveni is the latest career official to be suspended, demoted, transferred or fired for refusing to comply with a directive from President Trump’s appointees to take actions they deem improper or unethical.
Under questioning by a federal judge on Friday, Mr. Reuveni conceded that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place. Mr. Reuveni also said he had been frustrated when the case landed on his desk.
The General
As soon as word spread that President Trump had fired Gen.
Timothy D. Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber
Command, current and former administration officials began floating theories
about why he had been let go.
Had General Haugh opposed one of Mr. Trump’s initiatives,
perhaps moved too slowly on purging officers who had worked on diversity
issues? Or was he a casualty of the administration’s shifting priorities to
counter narcotics?
Whether any of that was true, it had little, if anything, to
do with why he was fired.
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