No mention of this in the grand jury indictment. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70476164/3/united-states-v-garcia/ What the public sees is the charging instrument, not the grand jury transcript or deliberations. So Bondi rattled off a whole load of accusations that were not part of the grand jury indictment? It seems he is simply being accused of being a part of everything MS-13 ever did as a gang. Actual sources would be helpful here. Regardless, no bearing on matter as he was ordered returned and the admin told the courts to fuck off. It's the authoratarian overreach that is the important thing. That the head of the office told to prosecute resigned accusing Bondi of political prosecution... Would he have done that if there was concrete evidence that Garcia was involved in child porn? MS‑13 association ✅ ✅ Charged Smuggling migrants ✅ ✅ Charged Guns & drugs and bad behavior ✅ ✅ Charged Child porn/murder ❌ Implicit in Bondi's rhetoric. No charges/evidence yet? Need this. Senior U.S. Attorney’s office prosecutor Ben Schrader, chief of the criminal division, resigned in protest ✅ Confirmed
Not to go down a rabbit hole though as the administration has eventually complied with the court orders. This was critical. Given the amount of time they had to dig up dirt to retroactively justify themselves, you'd think they could have had him running a meth lab under an industrial laundry business?
Pam Bondi, the woman who has never used the word allegedly, except in her own defence. I was watching a cop arrest video yesteday and once again heard "you will have an opportunity to prove your innocence". I have heard the same phrasing several times. Shifting burden of proof is one of the clearest signs of the ending of civil liberties. That’s not how it works. Or… it didn’t. Not in the before-times.
Blumenthal casts doubt on Abrego Garcia prosecution: ‘Charges are not evidence’ by Filip Timotija 06/07/25 02:18 PM ET Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) cast doubt on the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his return to the U.S. following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, claiming that “charges are not evidence.” “These charges have to be regarded with a very hefty dose of skepticism, in light of the timing, and all of the attendant circumstances,” Blumenthal said during a Friday night appearance on CNN’s “The Source.“ “The administration has no right to bring charges simply as an offramp, or a face-saver. And now it’s going to have to, in effect, put up and shut up, put its evidence where its mouth is.” “And I’ve heard again and again and again, as a prosecutor, as a United States attorney, federal prosecutor, as well as state attorney general, charges are not evidence,” he told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “And so far, we’ve seen no evidence.” One of Tennessee’s top federal prosecutor, Ben Schrader, who was recently the chief of the criminal division, resigned, ABC News reported Friday, over concerns that the criminal case was conducted for political reasons. Multiple courts have ordered the administration, including the Supreme Court, to return Abrego Garcia. Blumenthal raised concerns over Schrader’s resignation and argued that there should be an “investigation here, about exactly why this administration defied the United States Supreme Court, why it delayed this indictment, why it is failing to be forthcoming to the Congress and the people of the United States.”
Conservatives only wise up through personal experience. Missouri mom whose detention rocked a small MAGA town has been released Ming Li Hui’s arrest forced the residents of solidly red Kennett, Missouri, to confront the reality of Trump’s mass deportation efforts. Video embedded in story. https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/l...issouri-immigration-released-trump-rcna211449
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys are pushing to keep a civil case against the Trump administration alive so they can seek sanctions against officials for allegedly violating orders to return him from El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported earlier this year. After the government returned Abrego Garcia to the US on Friday to face federal criminal charges in Tennessee, Justice Department attorneys told US District Judge Paula Xinis that she should pause all deadlines in the civil case while they readied a formal request for her to drop the matter entirely. His return, they argued, rendered the case moot. But his return came just two days after Xinis, gave Abrego Garcia’s attorneys permission to pursue sanctions in the case. She instructed them to make a formal request for sanctions by June 11.