Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot get Trump lawyers texts and emails despite Fox News appearance that caught judge's attention
Source: Law & Crime
Oct 9th, 2025, 4:42 pm
The Trump administration is not keen on releasing potentially incriminating information about itself in the ongoing Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga, a new filing in the Maryland man's criminal case shows.
In a seven-page status report filed Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice bristled at discovery requests from the defense. Those requests are directly related to claims the government leveled human smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia as part of a reprisal campaign after his attorneys successfully litigated to have him freed from incarceration in El Salvador and returned stateside.
While addressing some of those arguments in the status report, the DOJ also says it has a "disagreement" with Abrego Garcia's attorneys over several pieces of sought-after information.
Those disagreements concern two categories of "[e]mail, text, and other correspondence" involving President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
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Does not exist': Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot get Trump lawyer's texts and emails despite Fox News appearance that caught judge's attention, DOJ says
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26184129-usa-v-kag-doj-status-report/
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https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26184129/usa-v-kag-doj-status-report.pdf