Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia requested a gag order on government officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as he awaits his criminal trial.
Abrego Garcia's attorneys issued the request to U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw of Tennessee, marking their third complaint that public statements made by Bondi, Noem, the DHS X account and others threaten their client's ability to receive a fair trial.
"Further intervention from the court is necessary to protect Mr. Abrego's right to a fair trial and the integrity of these proceedings," they wrote. "The government's ongoing barrage of prejudicial statements severely threaten -- and perhaps have already irrevocably impaired -- the ability to try this case at all -- in any venue."
The suit requests that Bondi, Noem and others at their respective agencies "refrain from making extrajudicial comments that pose a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing" the upcoming trial.
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