Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks for gag order against Bondi, Noem [View all]

Source: Politico


It is the third time defense attorneys have complained that public statements from government
officials are threatening Abrego’s right to a fair trial.


By Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein 08/28/2025 08:56 PM EDT

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The request submitted Thursday to U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Nashville is the third time defense attorneys have complained that public statements from government officials are threatening Abrego’s right to a fair trial. It follows a torrent of invective in recent days from President Donald Trump, Noem, Bondi and other close Trump allies, who have leveled salacious allegations against Abrego that he fervently denies.

“Further intervention from the Court is necessary to protect Mr. Abrego’s right to a fair trial and the integrity of these proceedings,” Abrego’s attorneys said. “The government’s ongoing barrage of prejudicial statements severely threaten — and perhaps have already irrevocably impaired — the ability to try this case at all — in any venue.”

Abrego contends that the criminal case against him is a concoction aimed at punishing him for becoming a political headache for Trump and his advisers. Earlier this year, the administration illegally deported Abrego to El Salvador in defiance of a 2019 court order that found he could face violence from a local gang in his home country. Abrego’s legal challenge to the deportation led to a cascade of harsh court rulings against the administration, caused international furor and raised alarms about Trump’s mass deportation policies.

But each ruling also provoked a defiant response from Trump and his White House aides who mounted increasingly strident attacks against Abrego in the months that followed. The administration brought Abrego back to the United States in June, two weeks after secretly obtaining a felony indictment against him for human smuggling in Tennessee...........................................................


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I don't know if Trump et al have a case against him or not, but it does not seem to me that he can get anywhere close to a fair trial with Trump and his gang continuously broadcasting nasty comments about him to the world.
Seems to me that the Judge is afraid to tell Trump to shut his trap!

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