Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys are pushing to keep a civil case against the Trump administration alive so they can seek sanctions against officials for allegedly violating orders to return him from El Salvador,

The return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. last Friday after his wrongful deportation to El Salvador in March should not end a judge's investigation into whether Trump administration officials should be held in contempt for violating a court order,

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers reminded the Maryland judge that his civil case against the government isn’t over just because he’s back — and that she “still retains jurisdiction to find contempt and impose sanctions.