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NY Times headline 3 OCT 2025:

 

Judge Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive
The ruling was an astonishing rebuke of both the Justice Department and some of its top officials, including Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general.

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In his ruling granting Abrego's request for a hearing on the vindictive prosecution claims, Crenshaw focused on comments that Bondi's top deputy, Todd Blanche, made on Fox News the day of his June arrest on human trafficking charges, to which Abrego pleaded not guilty.

 

"Strikingly, during a television interview Deputy Attorney General Blanche revealed that the government started 'investigating' Abrego after 'a judge in Maryland . . . questioned' the government’s decision, found that it 'had no right to deport him,' and 'accus[ed] [the government] of doing something wrong,'” the judge wrote.

 

“Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s remarkable statements,” Crenshaw wrote, “could directly establish that the motivations for Abrego’s criminal charges stem from his exercise of his constitutional and statutory rights to bring suit against the Executive Official Defendants, rather than a genuine desire to prosecute him for alleged criminal misconduct.”

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/judge-hearing-kilmar-abrego-garcia-vindictive-prosecution-rcna235552

 

Speaking of Dem heros.