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The U.S. Government's Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García

The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution.

The New Republic and USA Today bothnoted that it had been written by a discredited Prince George’s County detective who was later criminally indicted for leaking “sensitive and confidential information about an ongoing police investigation with a commercial sex worker.” Judge Xinis, in one of her orders, noted that the Administration had provided no evidence of MS-13 or terrorist ties, which it has also repeatedly alleged. In July, Crenshaw, in a second ruling endorsing her findings, was emphatic: “At bottom, the Government fails to provide any evidence that there is something in Abrego’s history, or his exhibited characteristics, that warrants detention.” He did suggest that Ábrego García will soon be afforded what the Trump Administration has denied him so far: a full and fair trial where he can subject the witnesses against him “to a rigorous cross examination.” This kind of scrutiny, which the Constitution demands, may be precisely why the government devised the Uganda option: by coercing Ábrego García to plead guilty, it might have avoided the burden of proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt, plus all the procedural safeguards that come with a public trial.

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