Abrego Garcia pushes sanctions request after Trump admin claims Fox News comments were 'necessary to protect' government
Source: Law & Crime
Jan 2nd, 2026, 3:21 pm
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are imploring a federal judge to sanction the Trump administration over extrajudicial comments made by a top immigration enforcement official on television last month.
The latest demand follows an initial request for sanctions days after Chief Border Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino made a series of remarks about the wrongfully deported Salvadoran man during appearances on Fox News and Newsmax, as Law&Crime previously reported.
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice responded by arguing the government "does not have editorial control of news chyrons," that Bovino did not explicitly name Abrego Garcia, and that his statements were a protected response to the defendant's.
On Tuesday, Abrego Garcia's lawyers accused the DOJ of trying to obfuscate by raising issues irrelevant to the dispute at hand. "The government has, time and again, trampled over the Court's commendably measured efforts to protect Mr. Abrego's fair-trial right," the eight-page reply memorandum reads at one point.
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Full headline: 'Pretending it doesn't exist': Abrego Garcia pushes sanctions request after Trump admin claims Fox News comments were 'necessary to protect' the government
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.283.0.pdf
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