In an eight-page filing Tuesday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis overruled several of the government’s ...

A federal judge in Maryland ordered the return of a second man deported by the Trump administration to a Salvadoran prison, ...

Xinis was born in Mineola, New York, graduated from the University of Virginia and went to Yale Law School. She clerked for ...

A day after the Supreme Court upheld her order for the government to “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return in a Thursday night ruling, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered at the ...

"Where is he and under whose authority?” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis asked in a Maryland courtroom. She was clearly agitated and angry during a hearing that lasted less than an hour.

"Where is he and under whose authority?” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis asked in a Maryland courtroom. “I’m not asking for state secrets,” she said. “All I know is that he’s not here.

The mood was tense in the courtroom as the judge, Paula Xinis, chastised Justice Department lawyers and expressed frustration with the government's efforts to comply. The hearing followed Thursday ...

A US judge directed the Trump administration to “take all available steps to facilitate the return” of a man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison and set a status ...