{"id":1517547,"date":"2026-06-22T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=ddfb3390ba28225f64b2710af805f934"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:04:40","slug":"doj-to-appeal-judges-order-dismissing-kilmar-abrego-garcias-human-smuggling-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1517547","title":{"rendered":"DOJ to appeal judge&#8217;s order dismissing Kilmar Abrego Garcia&#8217;s human smuggling case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/cdc766a07cb933d37c444799c7728067.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally and prayer vigil for him before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice is appealing a federal judge's ruling that dismissed the criminal human smuggling case against&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/timeline-wrongful-deportation-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador\/story?id=120803843\"><span class=\"s1\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/span><\/a>.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Robert McGuire, the federal prosecutor in Tennessee, filed a notice on Monday to U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw that the government is appealing the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally and prayer vigil for him before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Depa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":1517550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/cdc766a07cb933d37c444799c7728067.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 19:35:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/cdc766a07cb933d37c444799c7728067.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517551,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517547\/revisions\/1517551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}