The Trump administration has no interest in seeing a man returned to the United States who was illegally sent to El Salvador. The president made that very clear on Saturday… in a way that he probably thought was pretty clever.
The Trump administration has no interest in seeing a man returned to the United States who was illegally sent to El Salvador. The president made that very clear on Saturday… in a way that he probably thought was pretty clever.
In my dream world, the courts respond to Trump’s claim that he cannot retrieve anyone from El Salvador by putting a stay on all deportations until the Trump administration demonstrates that it will not deport people to any place from which it cannot quickly retrieve them if they were deported in error.
(I don’t expect this to happen.)
And to get the ball rolling a bit more quickly, hold Trump personally in contempt in El Salvador to help motivate fixing that glitch.
They can’t, the President cannot be held accountable for ANY official acts, according to the Supreme Court.
But what if they hold him in contempt in El Salvador “by accident”?
Maybe it wasn’t an official act, in the meantime you’re in contempt. Oh you’re in El Salvador now? Oh shit it was an official act? Oh well guess we can’t bring you back.