Abrego Garcia to remain in US for high-stakes 'vindictive' prosecution hearing
Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in the U.S. through at least the last week of November, according to a new court filing submitted Tuesday morning, as his months-long...
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Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in the U.S. through at least the last week of November, according to a new court filing submitted Tuesday morning, as his months-long legal fight with the Trump administration continues to play out in multiple federal courts. The update comes as Abrego Garcia's dueling criminal and civil cases have emerged as a major flashpoint in the Trump administration's broader immigration crackdown. Two separate federal judges in Tennessee and Maryland are currently weighing Abrego's current legal status, and whether the Justice Department acted with "selective" and "vindictive" prosecution in bringing a criminal case against him earlier this year. The new schedule ordered by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis allows Abrego Garcia to participate in a two-day evidentiary hearing ordered by another federal judge in Nashville to consider his assertion that his criminal case was motivated in part by the government's desire for retaliation . U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw is currently weighing a request from Abrego Garcia's lawyers to subpoena the second-highest-ranking Justice Department official, Todd Blanche, for testimony in that hearing. He also ordered the Justice Department to produce various government documents and communications stemming from Abrego's case, including on its decision to open an investigation into the 2022 traffic stop earlier this year. FEDERAL JUDGE LOSES PATIENCE WITH TRUMP DOJ AS ABREGO GARCIA DEPORTATION STALLS AGAIN The proposed schedule was submitted jointly Tuesday morning to Xinis, the federal judge in Maryland who issued an order in August keeping Abrego Garcia in the U.S. for now. She later memorialized the proposed dates in a minute order, including ordering both parties to appear back in her court on Nov. 21 for a motions hearing. Senior Trump administration officials told her Monday that they planned to deport Abrego Garcia to the third country of Liberia as early as Friday, Oct. 31, regar…