Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a judge on Thursday to bar top Trump administration officials — including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi — from making "baseless public attacks" against their client, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year.

The motion was filed in Nashville federal court less than a week after Abrego Garcia was released from pre-trial custody — only to be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and processed for possible deportation just days later. Abrego Garcia is now in the custody of ICE, though a Maryland judge has blocked him from being deported while she reviews the case.

Since Friday, his lawyers say federal officials have "attacked Mr. Abrego in the media in numerous highly p

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