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Abrego Garcia's attorneys ask judge for sanctions against Trump administration

Attorneys for mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Wednesday asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Trump administration for "repeated violations of its discovery obligations."

The Salvadoran native was brought back to the U.S. on Friday to face criminal charges in Tennessee, following a series of court battles in which the Trump administration repeatedly said it was unable to bring him back.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, in a separate case in Maryland, ordered government officials in April to testify under oath through expedited discovery in order to resolve Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation. HIs attorneys, in a court filing Sunday, argued that, despite his return, the Maryland court case is not over because the court continues to have a role "to ensure that [Abrego Garcia's] case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."

The DOJ, in response, argued that in a filing on Tuesday that Abrego Garcia's return makes the Maryland case unnecessary, and that it intends to file a motion to dismiss that case by next week.

In their court filing Wednesday night, Abrego Garcia's attorneys criticized the government's actions.

"The Government's defiance has not been subtle. It has been vocal and sustained and flagrant," argued Abrego Garcia's attorneys, who said the government's "defiance" of the court's discovery orders "has been egregious."

The attorneys requested that Judge Xinis impose fines "based on a finding of civil contempt," and that she compel the production of information the government "has improperly withheld," as well as "investigate the extent of the government's willful noncompliance."

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Unfortunately, they are only asking for fines for civil contempt. Members of the Trump administration responsible for the contemptuous behavior should be jailed for criminal contempt. But our justice system is weak.

TK wrote: Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:26 pm

I hope Trump strokes out in an apoplectic fit upon learning of this decision.

House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media

The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets.

It did so at the direct request of President Trump, who has accused NPR and PBS of bias against conservative viewpoints as part of his broader attacks on the mainstream media.

The measure passed largely along party lines, 214 to 212, with two key Republican lawmakers switching their votes from "no" to "yes" to push it over the finish line.

The legislation is the first request by the Trump administration for Congress to claw back money it already has approved through annual spending bills. The bill reflects a list of cuts totaling $9.4 billion that were requested by the Office of Management and Budget. The bulk of the cuts — $8.3 billion — are to foreign aid programs addressing global public health, international disaster assistance and hunger relief.

The remainder would slash $1.1 billion allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which distributes nearly all of the funds to local television and radio stations, for the next two fiscal years. By law, that money is supposed to be approved in advance as part of an effort to insulate public broadcasting from political influence over fleeting issues. That spending had been approved by both Republican-led chambers of Congress and signed into law by Trump earlier this year.

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