Abrego Garcia says DOJ playing 'fast and loose' with judge ahead of 'critical' hearing that could end criminal case
Source: Law & Crime
Jan 15th, 2026, 3:44 pm
With his human smuggling criminal trial canceled in Tennessee and a crucial evidentiary hearing upcoming in two weeks, one which could lead the case to be dismissed on vindictive prosecution grounds, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is trying to force the DOJ to hand over "two categories of key information" which the defendant says the Trump administration has "reneged" on producing.
The wongly (sic) deported Salvadoran man's lawyers claim that the DOJ's "about-face" on providing government witness information, plus a "privilege log of all documents the government submitted" for U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw's in-chambers review of the administration's "asserted privilege claims," only tends to confirm the feds are "unwilling and unable to rebut the presumption of vindictiveness that has already attached."
Slamming an "unrelenting effort to impede an objective inquiry into the motives behind this prosecution," Abrego Garcia claimed the Trump administration has, on the subject of the privilege log, "simply ignored the defense's repeated written inquiries about when it might be produced."
Attached as an exhibit to the motion was a Nov. 17 email from Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who weeks before decried the defendant's attempted intrusion into the inner workings of the highest levels of the DOJ and threatened to seek "extraordinary" appellate relief if Crenshaw tried to force Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to testify under oath about the origins of the criminal case.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/abrego-garcia-says-doj-playing-fast-and-loose-with-court-as-case-hangs-in-the-balance-ahead-of-crucial-evidentiary-hearing/
Full headline: 'Discoverable documents exist': Abrego Garcia says DOJ playing 'fast and loose' with judge ahead of 'critical' hearing that could end criminal case
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.286.0.pdf
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...threatened to seek "extraordinary" appellate relief if Crenshaw tried to force Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to testify...
Which means that they know they won't pass muster on their reasoning and they Arte just going to ignore this until they get their Supreme daddies to back them up.
Assuming they even worry with any of that. They are not being challenged on any actions in any arena, other than in the 'sterile' court room.
Which is a far cry from the streets where they are being thugs and criminals. Since the court actions are not saving anyone, and since the pogroms are still going on...
