On April 4, a federal district court ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate and effectuate the return…to the United States" of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a man whom the Trump administration admits that it unlawfully deported to a Salvadoran prison because of an "administrative error."
On April 10, the U.S. Supreme Court largely affirmed the district court's position. In an unsigned order, issued with no noted dissents, the Supreme Court declared that the district court's order "properly requires the Government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador." The Supreme Court then further ordered the Trump administration to "be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps."
Yet the Trump administration is now proffering a bizarro world version of that order which turns the Supreme Court's ruling on its head in an effort to give free rein to Trump.
