Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man, was deported to El Salvador on March 15 despite a protective order.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block a court order requiring it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.” This is eloquent and correct, but this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance.

The Trump administration argued that a federal judge couldn’t force the government to remedy the mistake.

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.

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,