Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are asking a federal judge to impose severe sanctions against the Trump administration for “flagrant” defiance of court-ordered discovery, including an extraordinary request for Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials to turn over their personal devices and phone data for review.
The sanctions motion, filed late Wednesday in Maryland federal court, accuses the administration of stonewalling efforts to probe how it handled Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had ordered a two-week expedited discovery process beginning April 15 to determine if the government had defied her Supreme Court-backed order to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. But lawyers for the deported migrant say that discovery instead dragged on for nearly two months with little compliance.
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