The Daily Beast
REUTERS A federal judge has slapped down the Trump administration’s criminal charges against a wrongfully deported Maryland dad as “vindictive prosecution.” District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr., an Obama appointee, tore into Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche over the Justice Department’s dogged pursuit of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wrongful removal to El Salvador in March last year became a flashpoint in the administration’s deportation blitz. The government brought human smuggling charges against the 30-year-old father of three after it was forced by the Supreme Court to facilitate his return to the U.S. Abrego Garcia contested the criminal charges, which stemmed from a November 2022 traffic stop that was ultimately closed, “for vindictive and selective prosecution.” Read more at The Daily Beast.
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