The federal judge overseeing the case of a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador said she would allow for expedited fact-finding to help her figure out whether the Trump administration is complying with her order that it “facilitate” his return from one of the country’s notorious mega-prisons.
The article is actually really badly written because it completely ignores a key point. The Supreme court itself said that the government needed to act internationally. It’s there in the text of the decision.
In other words, this isn’t the government against some low-level judge. It’s Trump telling the Supreme Court to go to hell. I hope some judges somewhere will actually stand up and lock people up for depriving people of their civil rights, but so far it doesn’t look like any of them have the courage to do so.
That’s the thing though, the judiciary has never had real power. The best they can do is issue decisions which are promptly ignored.
At this point a SCOTUS ruling seems to have as much power as a UN Resolution