Brace yourselves, friends, because the saga of “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia just refuses to end. The illegal alien from El Salvador—whose past raises more red flags than a May Day parade—has once again been handed a legal lifeline by the system that seems perpetually eager to bend over backward on his behalf.
In the latest twist, Tennessee District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr., an Obama appointee, has scrapped Abrego Garcia’s human smuggling trial altogether. Instead of allowing the case to proceed on the merits, the judge has opted to hold a hearing to determine whether Garcia is being prosecuted “vindictively”—a term that, in this context, appears to mean enforcing the law against the wrong kind of defendant.
To borrow another conservative commentator’s biting phrasing, the court now seems poised to weigh whether “St. Kilmar” is the real victim here—not the citizens impacted by illegal immigration, not the integrity of U.S. borders, and certainly not the rule of law.
Crenshaw’s latest maneuver didn’t come out of nowhere. It follows closely on the heels of another friendly ruling—this one from Maryland District Court Judge Paula Xinis, who just last Monday extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from taking Abrego Garcia into custody. And in a coincidence that will surprise exactly no one, Xinis is also an Obama appointee.
Taken together, the rulings amount to a judicial one-two punch designed to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia exactly where progressive judges seem to want him: out of custody and insulated from consequences.
This latest lefty court reprieve comes as Abrego Garcia was scheduled to face trial in Tennessee in late January on human smuggling charges. Those charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop that would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. During the stop, Abrego Garcia was found driving a vehicle owned by a convicted human smuggler—with eight people crammed inside. None of the passengers had identification or legal documentation, leading authorities to believe they were also in the country illegally:
BREAKING: @FoxNews has obtained the Tennessee Highway Patrol bodycam footage from when “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia was suspected of human trafficking during a traffic stop in 2022.
“He’s hauling these people for money,” a trooper says. https://t.co/GbCdtAEGBa
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 2, 2025
All of this looks especially suspicious when viewed alongside Abrego Garcia’s alleged background. This is not some innocent bystander swept up in bureaucratic error. He has reportedly been accused of domestic abuse and may have ties to the notoriously violent MS-13 gang—an organization synonymous with brutality, intimidation, and criminal violence. Yet somehow, the benefit of the doubt keeps flowing in one direction.
Now, Judge Crenshaw has gone even further, effectively pulling the plug on the human smuggling trial altogether. Rather than allowing prosecutors to present their case, the judge has scheduled an evidentiary hearing for January 28 to examine whether Abrego Garcia is the victim of what the court calls “vindictive prosecution.”
In an extraordinary move, Crenshaw has already concluded that Abrego Garcia made a prima facie showing of vindictiveness—before a jury ever hears the evidence and before the government has the opportunity to fully prosecute the charges:
In the ruling, the judge said the evidence provided by the defense had turned the case in Abrego Garcia’s favor long ago – at least on the due process issue of whether the prosecution is vindictive.
Crenshaw wrote, “The burden-shifting framework controls the Court’s analysis. Specifically, once a defendant establishes a prima facie showing of vindictiveness, ‘a presumption arises in defendant’s favor.’ The Court has already found that Abrego has made such a showing, entitling him to discovery and an evidentiary hearing on why the government is prosecuting him.”
Meanwhile, “St. Kilmar” appears to be making the most of his court-protected freedom—along with the curious privileges that seem to come with being one of the Democrat Party’s favored illegal aliens. Rather than sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial on serious criminal charges, Abrego Garcia is apparently experimenting with a new line of work: social media influencer.
Yes, while judges tie themselves in knots to shield him from prosecution, Abrego Garcia has reportedly taken to TikTok:
So we, at @DHSgov, are under gag order by an activist judge and Kilmar Abrego Garcia is making TikToks.
American justice ceases to function when its arbiters silence law enforcement and give megaphones to those who oppose our legal system. https://t.co/11pNrHQUK6
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) December 27, 2025
At this point, it’s fair to ask whether we’re ever going to be rid of this guy. After watching the hero’s welcome Abrego Garcia and his wife received outside Judge Paula Xinis’ courtroom last week, it’s hard not to suspect we’re witnessing the early stages of a familiar political transformation.
Give it time. A little Ozempic here, some Botox there, a wardrobe upgrade, and before long the two could be touring the country as ready-made Democrat Party surrogates—paraded out to scold Americans about compassion while conveniently ignoring borders, laws, and victims.
If and when that circus rolls into town, remember how it started: with activist judges, selective enforcement, and a political machine that never met an illegal alien it didn’t want to turn into a symbol. And if that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you can thank an Obama voter.
