Trump administration appeals dismissal of criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Trump administration has appealed the dismissal of Tennessee criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 30-year-old man living in Maryland who gained national attention after being wrongly deported to El Salvador last year. In May, U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw threw out the human smuggling charges, calling the prosecution “vindictive and selective.” Crenshaw said the government reopened an old investigation after Abrego successfully challenged his deportation and the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the administration to facilitate his return. The administration notified its intent to appeal in June and argued in an opening brief Monday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District that the presumption of vindictiveness was improper.