Supreme Court

“He sits in a foreign prison solely at the behest of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake,” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said.

“Deadline: White House” legal analyst Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump administration lawsuits and other issues.

The federal government “takes the extreme step of disavowing its own lawyer’s statements,” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers wrote.

The 5-4 Supreme Court decision “eliminates the basis for this Court’s order to show cause,” the Trump DOJ wrote to Judge Boasberg.

Trump officials had urged the high court to “stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is wrought.”

Trump officials asked the high court to vacate a judge’s temporary restraining orders, which they’ve been accused of violating.

The U.S. conceded an “administrative error” but said that “does not license district courts to seize control over foreign relations.”

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The administration has been pressing for high court relief from lower court rulings in several cases. The court just granted it.

Judge Neomi Rao wrote in dissent that an appeal about the scope of Trump’s blanket pardon “presents exceptional circumstances.”

As the second Trump administration enacts more of its policy goals, abortion opponents are trying to starve abortion providers of any federal funding.