Yesterday, a judge appointed by Barack Obama, Waverly Crenshaw, lectured Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem that they and their compatriots at their respective departments should watch what they say about “Maryland Dad” Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Something said by someone might prejudice the case against Garcia. We wouldn’t want that now, would we?

Do you get the feeling that the entire Left is feeling rather peevish with us for reelecting Donald Trump to be President again? This same judge, Judge Waverly Crenshaw, was one of a group of judges that “powerfully rebuked” the Trump Administration and so we have been forced to hang on to Garcia since July. Then yesterday, the Trump Administration got more finger-waving. From Politico “A judge slammed Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem over ‘troubling’ remarks about Kilmar Abrego Garcia”:

A federal judge took Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to task Monday for their incendiary, out-of-court statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran native who was illegally deported from the U.S. to his home country before being brought back to face immigrant-smuggling charges.

U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw ruled the Trump Cabinet members violated a local court rule limiting comments by government officials relating to an ongoing criminal case. Crenshaw stopped short of issuing a gag order against future comments about Abrego. However, the judge ordered prosecutors to notify every employee at DOJ and DHS about the existing rule restricting public statements about pending cases.

Don’t you dare say anything bad about this “hard-working, Maryland Dad”.

“Government employees have made extrajudicial statements that are troubling, especially where many of them are exaggerated if not simply inaccurate,” wrote Crenshaw, an Obama appointee based in Nashville. “These statements made allegations regarding Abrego’s ‘character or reputation’ and expressed government officials’ views on Abrego’s ‘guilt or innocence.’”

Crenshaw said Noem violated the rule by declaring that Abrego is a “MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator.” And the judge said Bondi ran afoul of the rule by stating that Abrego played “a significant role in an alien smuggling ring … [that] this was his full-time job, not a contractor … [that] [h]e was a smuggler of humans and children and women … [and that] [h]e made over 100 trips.”

The co-author of this Politico article, Kyle Cheney, wanted to make sure you got the point:

NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings.

w/ @joshgerstein https://t.co/mBsaZyFR5y pic.twitter.com/Wub5MhNBGG

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 28, 2025

The judge did not specify which comments were troubling but:

Although many of the statements were drawn from public court filings, the judge said they violated the court’s rule by opining on evidence in the case and future violations could result in sanctions which he did not specify.

The ruling adds momentum to Abrego’s contention that top Trump administration officials have targeted him unfairly in the aftermath of his illegal deportation to El Salvador earlier this year, which led to a cascade of legal problems for the White House, DOJ and DHS. Abrego was whisked onto an airplane in March and sent to El Salvador despite a 2019 court order that found he was likely to be targeted for gang violence there.

The administration resisted numerous court rulings requiring officials to facilitate Abrego’s return from El Salvador earlier this year, only agreeing to bring him back in June after a grand jury in Tennessee charged him with human smuggling.

Pam and Kristi are naughty ladies. It has been an interesting day for AG Bondi, though.

FBI Nabs 'Anarchist' Suspect Who Offered $45K for the Murder of AG Pam Bondi https://t.co/27yJdgGS8k

— ConservativeLibrarian (@ConserLibrarian) October 28, 2025

Can you just imagine if ….never mind. We know the Left isn’t responsible for the violence it seems to solicit.

Here this reporter calls this politically charged debate:

Apparently, Judge Waverly Crenshaw wasn’t necessarily thrilled with the defense either:

Crenshaw, who also dinged defense lawyers for publicly disclosing details about plea negotiations, said he was confident that Abrego would receive a fair trial because media coverage of the case appeared to be subsiding, both nationally and in Tennessee. He added that efforts to screen jurors for potential bias would likely identify anyone who had been exposed to the potentially prejudicial comments about Abrego.

So glad this is in Middle Tennessee and not East Tennessee.

Interestingly, the Government is planning to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia by this Friday:

Judge Presses DOJ to Justify Deporting Maryland Man Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberiahttps://t.co/l8RVGS2ZNH pic.twitter.com/2Xw43GcNjh

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 28, 2025

More from Politico:

Earlier Monday, DOJ officials told another judge that the administration now intends to deport Abrego to Liberia and will seek to do so before — and perhaps in lieu of — any trial in his criminal case.

U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw also ORDERS Trump's Justice Dept. to turn over discovery they've withheld on Abrego's vindictive prosecution motion.

Crenshaw will review evidence privately before turning anything over to the defense. https://t.co/vSksYFqAbC

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 27, 2025

The final order for deportation was issued for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in 2019. How long do we have to wait for him to get gone.

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