The Trump administration isn't defying the letter of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. But it's daring the federal courts to take much more aggressive steps to block its immigration policies.| www.stevevladeck.com
How one reads Thursday's ruling ordering the federal government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return depends upon how much (or how little) one expects *this* administration to turn square corners.| www.stevevladeck.com
In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case. But these aren't normal times.| www.stevevladeck.com
Federal courts don't have jurisdiction over foreign prisons. That doesn't mean that they're powerless when the U.S. government wrongly removes someone from the United States.| www.stevevladeck.com