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FBI Director Kash Patel didn't win any new fans inside the bureau after his testimony on Capitol Hill, according to MS NOW's Ken Dilanian.

The FBI director faced tough questions from Democratic lawmakers during a Justice Department budget hearing about his alleged drinking and his investigations of President Donald Trump's political enemies, and Dilanian told "Ana Cabrera Reports" that Patel enjoys little support from the bureau's rank-and-file employees.

"Well, look, I'm sure there are currently serving FBI agents who are big fans of Kash Patel, but I just haven't met any of them," Dilanian said. "The people I talked to are largely disgusted with the way he conducts himself, and really, that's in keeping with the way a lot of Trump senior cabinet officials handle these congressional hearings. He came armed with opposition research."...

President Donald Trump and his administration will finally return Kilmar Ábrego García to the United States after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the president to "facilitate and effectuate" his return from a brutal El Salvador prison, ABC News reported Friday.

Ábrego García, a Maryland father, is married to an American, but remains an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. He was captured by the Department of Homeland Security and accused of being an MS-13 gang member based on his tattoos.

Trump even went so far as to show a photo of Ábrego García's tattoos on his hand where MS-13 had been photoshopped....

A Utah law firm said Tuesday that it plans to sue the US government for its allegedly unlawful detention and deportation of a Venezuelan immigrant who was sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador known for its torture and abuse of inmates.

“Our client is a young Venezuelan man who came into the US legally to escape threats of violence by the Venezuelan government against his family for their opposition to the Maduro regime,” said Brent Ward, an attorney at Parker & McConkie, referring to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was kidnapped by US forces during a January invasion of his country.

Ward said that the client—identified by the pseudonym “Johnny Hernandez”—is seeking $56 million in damages and “has no criminal record either in the US or in Venezuela.”...

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas T. Cullen has thrown out the case from the Justice Department after it demanded a higher court allow them to deport Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland father who has become emblematic of President Donald Trump's erratic mass deportations.

The Trump-appointed judge dismissed the lawsuit Tuesday morning against state judges who paused Ábrego García's deportation for 48 hours so that his case could be adjudicated, explained Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney.

Cullen also issued a rebuke of Trump and his administration for the ongoing attacks on judges, calling their filings a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate."...

Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. presided over the Kilmar Ábrego García bail hearing on Wednesday and indicated that the Justice Department struggled to reach the high standard required to declare him a danger to the community.

"Obviously, the court is going to look at the issues...I'm having a hard time understanding your argument that there is by clear and convincing evidence no conditions that could control the danger posed by the defendant...that's a pretty high standard," said Crenshaw, according to Lawfare's Anna Bower, reporting from the Nashville, Tennessee, courthouse.

The bail hearing resulted in "blistering" exchanges between a Homeland Security agent and Ábrego's lawyer, Sean Hecker, according to one legal analyst in the courtroom. ...

The Department of Homeland Security traded barbs with Democratic lawmakers on Monday after immigration officials detained a high-profile individual.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a migrant from El Salvador, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Monday following an immigration check-in. His detention comes about 160 days since he was returned to the United States from El Salvador's notorious gang prison, CECOT.

The federal government has said they plan to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda. A federal judge halted the deportation process Monday afternoon. ...