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Here's the bit where, 6 hours before Pam Bondi invoked State Secrets to cover the planes, ACLU pointed out that Trump and Rubio already acknowledged those were the planes.

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emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Mar 24
In addition to providing declarations from people who were returned from El Salvador (a woman and a Nicaraguan), ACLU uses Bukele's own propaganda video, and Trump & Rubio's RTing of it, to prove that the flights were the ones tracked publicly.

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In addition, public information shows that two planes were still in the air when the Court issued both its oral and written Orders. Most significantly, based on information publicized by U.S. government officials and publicly available flight data, at least two flights took off during the hearing on March 15—one at 5:26pm EDT and the other at 5:45pm EDT—and landed well after this Court’s written Order had been filed. See Pls. Resp. to Defs. Notice (ECF No. 21); see also Joyce Sohyun Lee and Kevin Schaul, Deportation Flights Landed after Judge Said Planes Should Turn Around, Wash. Post (Mar. 16, 2025). 2 And the video released by President Bukele that shows Plaintiff class members being hauled off the planes in El Salvador includes each plane’s tail number.3 That video was then reposted by both President Trump4 and Secretary of State Rubio.5 3 https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1901245427216978290 [https://perma.cc/BM73-547H]. 4 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114173862724361939 [https://perma.cc/67LY-FREW]. 5 https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1901252043517432213 [https://perma.cc/RXH4-XH4R].
March 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
As noted, ACLU cited both this Trump post and a Marco Rubio one and noted that he tail numbers were visible in a post earlier. Noem's declaration appears to have been scanned after Bondi and Rubio's so I wonder if they tweaked it.

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March 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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theprestige.bsky.social
Wow. Just ... wow. Wonder if he's aware of how stressful it is to be disappeared to an El Salvadoran prison due to an EO
March 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM