Supreme Court won't block judge's order to have Abrego Garcia returned to the United States (was: John Roberts won't save Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia)

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

After being ordered by a district judge to retrieve Kilmar Armando
Abrego Garcia from the prison in El Salvador to which the Trump
administration deported him, despite a no-deportation order the man had
received during the first Trump administration, the Trump administration
appealed directly to John Roberts.

Roberts granted the administration an administrative stay on the basis
of lack of extraterritorial jurisdiction.

I don't believe for even a moment that, if requested, the man couldn't
be returned, but Trump wouldn't even ask.

He's sure to be killed.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s/

In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court denied the Trump
administration's request to block the judge's ruling ordering Abrego
Garcia's return to the United States, who had been deported to a maximum
security prison in El Salvador in an administrative order.

However, the judge must modify the order to show deference to the
president's power to conduct foreign affairs.

The Justice Department lawyer who made the admission in court has been
put on administrative leave and a different lawyer was assigned.

This includes background on various immigration court rulings that made
a finding that he was a gang member based on having been named by a
confidential informant (who had gotten details wrong that he lived in
New York while committing unnamed crimes for the gang) during the first
Trump administration, but later, he was able to prove threats against
himself and his family back home, and was granted "withholding of
removal". It doesn't appear he sought asylum. He was subject to
deportation in the first place as an illegal alien, coming to the United
States as a teenager to escape the gang. When he asked for bond, that's
when the administration claimed he was a gang member.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-direct-government-to-facilitate-return-of-maryland-man-mistakenly-deported-to-el-salvador/

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-maryland-deportation-trump-9f46dd62890befdc321ed1ab56107470