Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts indefinitely blocked a court order requiring the return of alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia by midnight tonight.
Earlier Monday, President Trump asked the US Supreme Court to intervene and grant an emergency stay of the judge’s order to return alleged MS-13 gang member Abrego Garcia to the United States.
Roberts granted the Trump Administration a stay on Judge Xinis’ order pending resolution.
Lawyers for Abrego Garcia have until Tuesday, April 8 to respond.
WHOA! I was wrong (at least for now). Stay granted pending resolution. pic.twitter.com/rhj6KRO6wl
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 7, 2025
Last Friday US District Judge of the US District Court for the District of Maryland, Paula Xinis ordered the Trump Administration to return an alleged MS-13 gang member to the United States after he was deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
Judge Xinis ordered the Salvadoran gang member to be returned by Monday at midnight but Roberts blocked her order.
Solicitor General John Sauer took issue with Judge Xinis’ broad order and condensed timeline it his emergency application to the Supreme Court.
“The Constitution vests the President with control over foreign negotiations so that the United States speaks with one voice, not so that the President’s central Article II prerogatives can give way to district-court diplomacy. If this precedent stands, other district courts could order the United States to successfully negotiate the return of other removed aliens anywhere in the world by close of business. Under that logic, district courts would effectively have extraterritorial jurisdiction over the United States’ diplomatic relations with the whole world,” Solicitor General John Sauer argued in his emergency application to the Supreme Court.
John Sauer also said the US does not control El Salvador and therefore “cannot compel El Salvador to follow a federal judge’s bidding.”
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