Good evening. I'm William Brangham. Jeff Bennett and Omna Nawaz are away. On the news hour tonight, a judge once again presses the Trump administration for answers on why it hasn't tried to bring back a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

The federal government freezes billions of dollars in grants to Harvard

University after the Ivy League institution refuses to give in to President Trump's demands.

And China cuts off exports of rare earth minerals used in automobiles, aerospace, and other critical

technology as part of this escalating global trade war.

We're highly dependent on China. I mean, consider that we don't have any heavy rare earth processing facilities here at home. Welcome to the News Hour. Inside a Maryland courtroom today, another escalation in the legal battle

over the man wrongfully deported to El Salvador. Judge Policini says she's not yet holding Trump administration officials in contempt,

but she said she would not tolerate gamesmanship or grandstanding.

She is ordering the administration to produce details about what, if anything, is being done

to bring Kilmar Abrago Garcia backargeo Garcia back to the United States.

Our White House correspondent Laura Brun-Lopez has the latest.

William, Judge Sini scolded the Trump administration for doing, quote,

nothing to facilitate Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia's release from El Salvador's custody and return

to the United States.

The judge also said that comments made by El Salvador and President Naiba Buceli in the Oval Office

were not evidence.

President Buckelli said that he would not return Garcia to the United States.

For more, I'm joined now by Mary McCord, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional

Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University and former acting

Assistant Attorney General for National Security.

Mary, thanks so much for joining us this evening.

You wrote in the Washington Post that Judge Cineas should order senior officials to testify

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