The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a lower court-ordered deadline to return to the US a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, granting the Trump administration additional time to review the case.

The Supreme Court has blocked an order to return a man administration officials acknowledge was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador.

It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.” This is eloquent and correct, but this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance.

The Trump administration argued that a federal judge couldn’t force the government to remedy the mistake.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident protected from deportation by a 2019 court order who has lived in the U.S. since 2011, was deported to a notorious Salvadorian prison on March 15.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday declined to lift an order blocking the Trump administration from sending people with final deportation orders to countries not cited in earlier proceedings without first letting them make a case for humanitarian protection.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a victory on Monday by letting him use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president's hardline approach to immigration.

Like many of the Trump administration’s most controversial actions, the deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is not just a bureaucratic blunder — it was a brazen affront to the rule of law. Despite a binding immigration court order protecting him from removal due to the likelihood of torture in El Salvador,