Chief Justice John Roberts briefly halted a choose’s midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return to the nation a person mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Roberts agreed to carry the deadline till the excessive court docket can resolve the Trump administration’s emergency request to elevate the choose’s order.
The order doesn’t tackle the underlying deserves of the dispute and isn’t essentially a sign of how the court docket will rule.
Abrego Garcia was one in every of tons of of migrants deported to a infamous Salvadoran jail final month. The administration has accused him of being linked to MS-13 based mostly on a report from a confidential informant, however Abrego Garcia’s household rejects that he has any gang ties.
U.S. District Decide Paula Xinis, an appointee of former President Obama who serves in Maryland, late final week set the Monday evening deadline for the Trump administration to return the person to the nation.
However the Justice Division insists it can not deliver Abrego Garcia again to the US now that he’s within the fingers of Salvadoran authorities, writing in court docket filings that the decrease ruling “sets the United States up for failure.”
The administration filed its emergency enchantment on the Supreme Court docket on Monday morning, minutes earlier than a midlevel appeals court docket rejected a bid to stave off the deadline.
In court docket filings, Abrego Garcia’s attorneys stated the administration’s request is “built on a series of strawmen.”
“He sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake,” his attorneys wrote to the Supreme Court docket.
Although Roberts’s order is a brief win for the Trump administration, it isn’t essentially a sign that the administration will prevail.
When the administration introduced a request in February to dam a choose’s midnight deadline to renew $2 billion in international help funds, Roberts equally delayed it till the court docket may situation its ruling.
He went on to affix the court docket’s liberals and Justice Amy Coney Barrett to facet in opposition to the administration.
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