All Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Dismissed

The Government deported a man by mistake, fought every court that ordered him back, and when it finally lost, went looking for a crime. Today a federal judge has dismissed all charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and called out the abuse of power on display from the U.S. ruling regime.

Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismissed the entire indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as vindictive prosecution, a violation of the Fifth Amendment. It wasn’t necessarily a ruling that Abrego was innocent, but that the case should never have been brought.

Abrego was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 in what the government admitted was a mistake. He challenged it and won: the Supreme Court ordered him returned, and a Maryland judge found the regime had made "no meaningful effort to comply." HSI had opened a 2022 traffic-stop investigation and closed it in April 2025 after the deportation, recording that "all goals for this case" were accomplished. Six days after the Maryland ruling, it reopened that closed investigation.

Judge Crenshaw found that Main Justice had been involved throughout the case. Deputy AG Todd Blanche had publicly admitted the probe began after a judge questioned the deportation, and Associate Deputy AG Aakash Singh handed the local prosecutor his star witness before that prosecutor had even heard the man’s name. The government’s own Criminal Division Chief Ben Schrader recommended against charging, warned it would look vindictive, and resigned the day of the indictment, and the government’s brief never mentioned him.

Crenshaw’s opinion opens and closes on a 1940 warning from Attorney General Robert Jackson, that the most dangerous power of the prosecutor is to pick the man and then go looking for the crime, and Crenshaw found that the record before him reflected exactly that, “an abuse of prosecuting power.”

The dismissal does not make Abrego Garcia free, however. The criminal case is gone, but the immigration case against him runs separately, and the regime is still trying to deport him, now to Liberia. A Maryland judge blocked ICE from re-detaining him in February, and at a May 12 hearing the question of whether they can take him back into custody remained unresolved.

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