DOJ seeks to reinstate smuggling charges against wrongfully deported Salvadoran man

In the long and contested history of prosecutorial power, few cases illuminate its potential for misuse as starkly as that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported by the U.S. government, who then dared to challenge that deportation in court, and who a federal judge found was subsequently charged with human smuggling as punishment for doing so. The Justice Department, refusing to accept that finding, has now appealed to the 6th Circuit, insisting its prosecutors acted on evidence and law alone. What hangs in the balance is not merely one man's fate, but a deeper question