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The tsunami of court orders that has been washing over the Trump administration—he “can’t do this,” he “must do that”—has me wondering where it all will end. Will the multifarious injunctions, restraining orders, and appeals finally paralyze Trump’s agenda? An agenda, I hasten to point out, on which he was elected, so, given the strength of his victory, it is also the American people’s agenda.
I don’t know. The attacks have been extraordinary not only in number but also in depth. The president and his lieutenants have, in effect, been told that they cannot hire and fire whom they wish or enter into or terminate what contracts they wish; in some cases, they are even forbidden to know what payments have been made by the agencies they nominally direct. Law enforcement and foreign policy are, or at least used to be, executive branch responsibilities. But the courts have gone to extraordinary lengths to insinuate themselves into those processes.
On April 4, Paula Xinis, a Maryland district court judge appointed by Barack Obama, ordered that the Trump administration must “facilitate and effectuate the return of Plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States by no later than 11:59 PM on Monday, April 7, 2025.”
As all the world knows, Garcia, an illegal alien, had been sent to enjoy the hospitality of El Salvador in March. It turns out that his deportation to El Salvador had been a mistake, an “administrative error.” This was not because he did not deserve to be deported. He most certainly did. However, he had previously been granted “withholding of removal” status by a judge in 2019 because, though El Salvador was his native land, he said he was threatened by gang members of MS-13 there. That meant that while Garcia could be deported, he could not be deported to El Salvador.
There are several ironies in the case. One is that MS-13, once a scourge of El Salvador, has been effectively neutered there by Nayib Bukele, the president. Indeed, Bukele has transformed El Salvador from “the murder capital of the world” into one of the safest countries in the Western Hemisphere.