Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia roundly ridiculed the DOJ's sweeping efforts to quash subpoenas of high-ranking officials by calling such resistance to testifying in court about their "motivations" behind the "smuggling illegal aliens" prosecution "bizarre," "impossible to take seriously," and even cowardly.

Ever since U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, a Barack Obama appointee, ordered an evidentiary hearing on Abrego Garcia's vindictive prosecution claim, going so far as to say that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's June remarks on Fox News were potential "direct evidence of vindictiveness," the defense has attempted to haul Blanche into court to testify under oath.

While DOJ has countered that there were "non-vindictive reasons" to charge the wrongly deported Abrego Garcia wh

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