Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s lawyers asked the judge in the case to appoint a special master to investigate the failure by Trump officials to comply with her instructions.
The prison in Santa Ana, El Salvador, where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is believed to have been held. The White House suddenly changed course last Friday and brought him back to face indictment.
The request came as lawyers in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s separate civil case were poised to ask a different judge to hold the Trump administration in contempt for sidestepping one of her orders.
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, in Nashville, where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia faces criminal charges of transporting undocumented immigrants.
The court’s pause on a judge’s order came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.
Scores of Venezuelan immigrants were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law and are being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.
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