Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

Establishment liberals, as usual, completely ignored that the supreme court order had some weasel wording (on facilitate vs effectuate) that would allow for this very possibility to occur. Did they really think that the Trump administration would not try to exploit this?

The weasel words:

The rest of the District Court’s order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.

Nobodies on twitter/x were pointing this very possibility out days ago. You know it's bad when nobodies on twitter are doing better journalism than the Washington Post.

Also the Huffington Post article is really bad

These are two entirely different things. There is no world where the administration’s definition of “facilitate” aligns with obeying either court’s orders.

There is, it's the one we're living in right now. Hence Garcia still being locked up in El Salvador and not repatriated back to the United States, and Trump remaining president, with no constitutional crisis. That is how it's playing out. Saying that it ain't so doesn't actually change anything.

The reason the administration can even make the claim for its mangled definition of “facilitate” gets at how the Supreme Court royally screwed this case up.

In its unanimous decision, the court did order the administration to get Abrego Garcia out of CECOT and to the U.S., but it also stated that the district court that first ordered Abrego Garcia’s return “should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”

Why is the Huffington Post viewing this as a screw up, and not a deliberate action by the justices on the court, to give the Trump administration an out here? The court is a partisan institution, the majority of the judges are Republican nominees. Compromises obviously had to be made to get this verdict, yet alone a unanimous one at that. They are going to give their party and their guy (in Trump) a way out. Does the Huffington Post not understand the basic dynamics of political power?

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