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Obama judge uses ‘vindictive’ ruling to release alleged MS-13 human trafficker

Judge Crenshaw rules DOJ failed to rebut vindictive prosecution claims; government says it will appeal the dismissal

By Hans A. von Spakovsky Fox News

Published May 29, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Federal District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. (not surprisingly an Obama appointee) has dismissed the criminal indictment of the Democrats’ favorite father-of-the-year, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. So, an illegal alien accused by a federal grand jury in Tennessee of being involved for almost a decade in organized human trafficking and weapons and narcotics smuggling, including transporting MS-13 gang members into the heart of America, has received a get-out-of-jail-free card from this federal judge. 

Crenshaw claims that the Justice Department and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche have not rebutted claims that they engaged in a "vindictive" prosecution of Garcia as revenge for the federal courts ordering Garcia, an illegal alien, to be returned to the U.S. after he was deported to El Salvador.

But in a 32-page order in which Crenshaw goes into excruciating detail over the procedural process that occurred inside DOJ and Homeland Security over the investigation and prosecution, he has only two sentences about the criminal indictment of Garcia and the hideous, dangerous crimes Garcia is accused of committing.

Before pointing out the logical fallacies in Crenshaw’s opinion, the public – and Garcia’s supporters like Maryland Democrat Sen.........

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