For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders to “facilitate” his release from El Salvador.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived a turbulent life in Maryland after fleeing El Salvador as a teenager. Now he’s the face of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Much of the lawsuit sought to re-litigate legal questions that sided against the group during a lengthy pretrial period and a multiweek trial in Federal District Court in Washington.
The lawsuit is another attempt by the Jan. 6 rioters to blame the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for engaging in what the complaint called “a corrupt and politically motivated” prosecution.
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