Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia refuse to give up on contempt charges, shred Trump admin [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 9th, 2025, 9:27 am
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are refusing to wave the white flag, urging a federal judge on Sunday to hold the Trump administration in contempt for allegedly orchestrating “an elaborate, all-of-government effort to defy court orders, deny due process, and disparage” the erroneously deported Maryland father — only to haul him back last week to face criminal charges, his attorneys say.
“Though Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is, at long last, back in the United States following his illegal removal, to characterize the Government as having ‘complied with the court’s order’ is pure farce,” wrote Abrego Garcia’s legal team in a five-page filing. “The Government flouted rather than followed the orders of this Court and the United States Supreme Court,” the lawyers blasted.
Abrego Garcia’s attorneys are seeking contempt sanctions in Maryland, where his family filed a federal lawsuit in March to bring the legally protected dad back to the U.S. after he was shipped off on March 15. They say the Trump administration showed how easy it was for Abrego Garcia to be brought back home, calling it the “latest act of contempt” from government officials, according to Sunday’s filing, after months of alleged stonewalling.
“The Government arranged for Abrego Garcia’s return, not to Maryland in compliance with the Supreme Court’s directive … but rather to Tennessee so that he could be charged with a crime in a case that the Government only developed while it was under threat of sanctions,” his lawyers said. “The Government’s convenient ability to return Abrego Garcia in time for a press conference unveiling his indictment puts the lie to its previously feigned powerlessness to comply with this Court’s injunction.”
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Full headline: ‘Pure farce’: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia refuse to give up on contempt charges, shred Trump admin for ‘convenient ability’ to return him to US
Link to FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25967185-abrego-garcia-contempt/
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25967185/abrego-garcia-contempt.pdf
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