TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 5, 2025

Yesterday afternoon, Judge Waverly Crenshaw canceled next week’s scheduled evidentiary hearing in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case pending further order, according to the Nashville Banner newsletter. Among other motions, next week’s hearing was meant to consider the issue of vindictiveness. In October, a federal judge in Nashville ruled there is a “realistic likelihood” the government acted vindictively in bringing human smuggling charges against Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador before being brought to Tennessee in June to face criminal charges.