Will the Supremes greenlight the kidnapping?

Whine whine whine. But we caaan’t, it’s too hard, we don’t have enough time, we don’t want to, we have to go potty, we want more ice cream.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for emergency intervention in the case of a Maryland man the government — by its own admission — removed to El Salvador by mistake and now must return by 11:59 p.m. on Monday under a lower court’s order.

Yes we sent him to El Salvador by mistake but it WASN’T OUR FAULT and anyway we can’t get him back right this second because we’re giant babies and we don’t know how.

Abrego Garcia, despite having protected legal status, was sent to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador following what the government said was an “administrative error.”

An error! A mistake! A little booboo! Everybody does them! Why are you picking on us???

The appeal to the Supreme Court came Monday morning, just before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a ruling by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis that Abrego Garcia must be returned by 11:59 p.m. on Monday

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s emergency motion to block the order to return Garcia to the U.S.

In a unanimous decision, the panel of three judges agreed Xinis’ order requiring the government “to facilitate and effectuate the return of [Garcia] by the United States by no later than 11:59 pm on Monday, April 7, 2025,” should not be stayed.

“The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process,” the judges said. “The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.”

That’s Trump for you. The more unconscionable the better.

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6 responses to “Will the Supremes greenlight the kidnapping?”

  1. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    At least two of them will… Dunno if the rest will go “well he might ignore us on this one, so maybe we shouldn’t let him call our bluff”.

  2. Papito Avatar

    Is this where the slippery slope starts?

  3. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    Oh well, you can’t blame them. It’s just when they get into this, uh, idiom they sometimes get a bit carried away.

  4. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    SCOTUS has decided that Garcia is staying in El Salvador for now.

    The Supreme Court has granted a request by the Trump administration to temporarily block a lower court order requiring that a deported Salvadorian man be returned to the US.

    Apparently they need more time to decide whether or not Trump can have just anybody snatched and sent to foreign prisons.

    This doesn’t auger well. Just as he’s exploiting the SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling to the full, if this one goes in his favour nobody who displeases him will be safe.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5xvjj9j1o.amp

  5. Papito Avatar

    Well, it’s just sending someone back to the country he came from.

    Well, it’s just sending someone who isn’t American out of the country.

    Well, that American must have been a bad guy.

    Hey, let go!