The exchanges unfolded at a hearing in Federal District Court in Nashville intended to determine whether Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should be freed from criminal custody as he awaits trial.
The pause imposed by the three judges emerged from the first and one of the most contentious cases involving President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.
The Department of Justice building in Washington. The purging from government ranks of anyone associated with the federal cases against President Trump has been sporadic.
A still image from a video released by the Mexican government showing Ovidio Guzmán López being arrested in 2019. He was the first of El Chapo’s four sons to admit guilt in an American courtroom.
The judge, Paula Xinis, said some legal safeguard was needed because the Trump administration had already shown in this and other deportation cases that it could not be trusted.
In the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the administration appears primarily concerned with ensuring that a man it has described as a “dangerous illegal alien” never walks free on U.S. soil.
The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say.
A poster showing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia during a news conference with his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., in April.
The pardoned rioter, a former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol, is a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called weaponization committee.
The selection of Jared L. Wise means a man who had urged violence against police officers on Jan. 6 is now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.
The case in front of the Fifth Circuit emerged from an emergency petition filed by the A.C.L.U. seeking to stop the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan men from the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas.
The dueling moves reflected how federal law enforcement officers have at times been put in the position of pursuing the Trump administration’s shifting political agenda.
The decision to return and prosecute Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who is accused of belonging to MS-13 and who had been wrongly deported to El Salvador, provided Trump officials with an offramp.
The Sinaloa Cartel, the world’s most-feared fentanyl trafficker, is reeling from an internal war and a U.S.-Mexican crackdown. Its fate could upend global criminal networks.
The Sinaloa Cartel, the world’s most-feared fentanyl trafficker, is reeling from an internal war and a U.S.-Mexican crackdown. Its fate could upend global criminal networks.
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