The Department of Justice suspended a government lawyer who said it court that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national, was deported due to an administrative error. 

DOJ said the lawyer failed to "zealously advocate" the government's position in the case.

"At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States," Attorney General Pam Bondi said, according to the New York Times. "Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences." 

The lawyer was reportedly placed on indefinite paid leave.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled on Friday that the Trump administration has to “facilitate and effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return to U.S. soil by late Monday evening.

“A judicial order that forces the Executive to engage with a foreign power in a certain way, let alone compel a certain action by a foreign sovereign, is constitutionally intolerable,” the DOJ wrote.

Abrego Garcia was deported in March after his arrest in Maryland. A ruling from a judge in 2019 protected him from deportation to El Salvador where he could be persecuted by gangs, according to the AP.