'This is a Path of Perfect Lawlessness': Court Condemns Trump Over Wrongful Deportation

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trump is arguing for a path of perfect lawlessness where he can violate a person's due process rights with no consequences

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A three-judge panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected the Trump administration’s request to overturn a lower-court order requiring it to return a wrongfully deported Salvadorian immigrant to the U.S.

“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 court ruled. “The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.”

President Donald Trump last month invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th century wartime law, to deport the man, Kilmer Abrego Garcia, and hundreds of other people to a hard labor prison in El Salvador....

“There is no question that the government screwed up here,” Circuit Judge Harvie Wilkinson, who was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, wrote. “The withholding of removal order was country specific; it banned the government from removing Abrego Garcia to El Salvador and El Salvador only.”

Wilkinson said granting the Trump administration’s request would create a loophole through which it could “whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done.”

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1. This concurring opinion is very powerful and explains trump's plan to avoid any judicial review of unlawful actions

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2. 'Path of lawlessness': Reagan-appointed judge buries Trump DOJ in scathing ruling

A Reagan appointed judge had a great opinion in the case of the man sent to El Salvador by error

'Path of lawlessness': Reagan-appointed judge buries Trump DOJ in scathing ruling https://twp.ai/4imIyt

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T16:23:16.000Z

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Over the weekend, a Justice Department attorney was put on administrative leave after acknowledging in court that he'd never been given a "satisfactory" answer for why the U.S. government couldn't return a wrongfully deported immigrant from Venezuela who had been residing in Maryland. Now, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is scolding the DOJ's behavior in a new ruling.

In a unanimous decision on Monday, the court denied President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to resist returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight on Monday, wrote Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney on X.

J. Harvie Wilkinson III, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, was particularly scathing in his reaction to government claims that it could not possibly bring Garcia back to the United States despite acknowledging his wrongful deportation.

"The government rightfully concedes that it was an 'error' and a 'mistake' to ignore this process," Wilkinson wrote. "And, if it is truly a mistake, one would also expect the government to do what it can to rectify it. Most of us attempt to undo, to the extent that we can, the mistakes that we have made. But, to the best of my knowledge, the government has not made the attempt here. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."

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3. Chief Justice John Roberts blocks order to return wrongly deported man

Roberts believes in taking away people due process rights and supports trump's "Path of Perfect Lawlessness"

Chief Justice John Roberts blocks order to return wrongly deported man https://twp.ai/4imIRI

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T20:14:15.000Z

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Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has temporarily blocked a court order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to return a Maryland man who was illegally deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador.

Trump's Department of Justice filed an emergency appeal on Monday morning after a federal judge ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be returned to the United States.

Roberts granted an emergency stay of the order on Monday afternoon.

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4. Too bad the lawless f**k on the (formerly) s.c.

is upholding lawlessness instead of the law.

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5. K&R