Trump administration says it is not required to help wrongly deported man return to US

Trump showdown with courts in spotlight at migrant hearing

US President Donald Trump's showdown with the judicial system will be in the spotlight Tuesday at a hearing on the fate of a migrant who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.

By Devan Cole, CNN Attorneys for a man wrongly deported to El Salvador told a federal judge Tuesday that the Trump administration is misinterpreting a Supreme Court ruling that upheld the jurist’s directive that the government “facilitate” his return to the United States. The filing comes hours before U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis is scheduled to hear from both sides during a Tuesday afternoon hearing in the case of Kilmar Armando Ábrego Garcí…

Wrongly deported Maryland man’s lawyers, DOJ to face off in court

Washington — Lawyers for the Justice Department and a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador will meet again Tuesday in federal court as the Trump administration faces scrutiny following a Supreme Court ruling that said it must facilitate the release of the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, from a Salvadoran prison. The two sides will appear before U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in a courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a follow-up h…

Constitutional crisis arrives with Trump’s defiance of Supreme Court order

The Trump administration said Monday, in defiance of a 9-0 Supreme Court order, that it is not required to return a U.S. resident it illegally sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp last month.

Monsters Inc.: The Unconscionable White House Assault On Abrego Garcia

Passover began this past weekend with the traditional meal and discussion known as the “seder.” “Seder” means order, and the meal requires a precise liturgy unchanged for thousands of years. (The English translation has undergone a few rewrites to soften up the edges of what is a fairly martial story.) I was struck, as I hadn't been previously, by the following line recited during the breaking of the middle matzoh: “For the sake of our redemptio…

Stephen Miller Melts Down While Lying About Kilmar Garcia

More "alternative facts" from this administration. What do they do when things don't go their way and the Supreme Court rules unanimously against them? Just flat out lie about it, of course. The Trump administration is defying the courts after the Supreme Court ruled they needed to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return after he was illegally deported to be tortured in El Salvador, but you'd never know that listening to Trump advisor Stephen…