The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.
Would you consider that result to be an administration that has deferred to the rule of law? Would that make you feel safer?
Unless it is demonstrated that our legal system still has the power to correct wrongs being done by the administration it doesn’t much matter. “You might be unlawfully abducted and lost before the judiciary can return you” is not a message that resolves this as a demonstration of where the regime’s limits are. They want to strike fear, and “a judge said to bring them back but that didn’t happen” does that just fine.