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.

The Trump administration on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the return of a Maryland father it illegally deported to El Salvador.

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.

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,

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to temporarily halt a judge's order requiring his administration to return by the end of the day a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was erroneously deported to El Salvador.