Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers have accused the DOJ of trying to stack the evidentiary deck against the Salvadoran by seeking to introduce patently "unfair" allegations that are "likely to distract the jury" and back Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's out-of-court statements that he's a "horrible" person.

The 14-page filing in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Thursday came in opposition to the DOJ's stated intent to use evidence of alleged "pornographic messages" between Abrego Garcia and a minor — a "known informant who has been previously compensated for providing information to law enforcement," and was said to have been 15 years old in 2020, when the messages were sent.

Beyond expressing a desire to stipulate to his use of two phone numbers, so t

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