WASHINGTON – The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, asking judicial authorities to break down a lower court order that would bring back a Maryland man who was accidentally deported to El Salvador’s infamous mega prison.

US Attorney General D. John Saur Discussed It is despite the mistake of deporting Kilmer Armando Abrego Garcia of Beltsville, Maryland, the lower courts have no jurisdiction to order the Trump administration to return anyone the administration claims to revert to US custody anymore.

The appeal to the High Court came within minutes of the Court of Appeal Panel. I support it unanimously The order of US District Judge Paula Sinis sets a midnight deadline Monday for the administration to return Abrego Garcia to the United States

Despite being granted legal protection from deportation by a judge in 2019, immigration officers detained Abrego Garcia and sent him on a deportation flight to El Salvador on March 15, where he was imprisoned in the infamous prison known as the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT.

“The government has been ruined.”

A panel of three judges in the US Court of Appeals in the Fourth Circuit agreed that Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador was a major failure.

“The US government has no legal authority to legally attend the US on the streets and take anyone who takes him out of the country without legitimate proceedings,” wrote two judges on the panel, Robert B. King and Stephanie D. Schutt.

King was appointed former President Bill Clinton, and football was appointed by former President Barack Obama.

“The argument that the government’s argument is otherwise helpless to intervene by federal courts,” they wrote.

J. Harvey Wilkinson III, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, wrote in his options:[t]There’s no doubt that the government has been a mess here. ”

He pointed out that President Donald Trump’s administration has not made an effort to correct the mistake.

“As such, the facts of this case present the possibility of an intrusive loophole: that is, the government can allow individuals to bubble into foreign prisons in violation of court orders, and may invoke the powers of that Article 2.

To go back

on friday, Sinis ordered the Trump administration To return Abrego Garcia.

The Department of Justice immediately appealed the decision, and Xinis issued a scathing issue Sunday page orders It quoted records and official statements from Trump officials saying the administration has the authority to return Abrego Garcia to the United States.

“Neither the US nor El Salvador have told anyone why he was returned to the very country he couldn’t return, or why he was detained at CECOT,” she wrote. “The silence has been announced. As the defendant admits, they had no legal authority to arrest him, no legitimacy to restrain him, no basis for sending him to El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia was one of three deportation flights to CECOT on March 15th. The two flights included 238 Venezuelans who were deported under wartime laws. Currently being challenged At another trial.

Sinis has accused the Trump administration of claiming that he has no jurisdiction to order Abrego Garcia’s return.

“Their jurisdiction debate fails as a matter of law for the following reasons,” she said. “And the more, the courts will concede only of relief, as they explicitly avoid irreparable harm and impartiality and justice force them to do so.

She noted that both countries have an agreement to house more than 250 deported men at CECOT.

The United States is paying $6 million to El Salvador to detain men in prison. Trump is scheduled to meet El Salvador President Naive Buquere at the White House on April 14th.

In response to a district court order to return President El Salvador Abrego Garcia, Naive Buquere, I posted a gif A cartoon bunny confused on social media.

The lawyer took leave

Erez Roubeni, a Justice Department lawyer who argued on behalf of the Trump administration, was placed on indefinite administrative leave over the weekend.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that Rouveni was on leave for not defending the administration “fiercely.”

Leuveni, a veteran government lawyer, has argued for the DOJ between four governments.

During Friday’s hearing, he was frankly saying that the Trump administration had provided little information on why Abrego Garcia could not return to the US, and that “the government has chosen not to generate evidence here.”

Last updated at 12:15pm, April 7, 2025