Showdown maybe. They don't have a deadline or consequences for failing to act or requirement that they actually take steps which result in his being returned to the US.
The constitutional crisis has been underway since inaguration day, but the wheels of justice grind slowly so there is some delay between getting knocked off track and the inevitable trainwreck.
The showdown is the answer of the question "Will trump disobey the orders of the supreme court of the land?" If that answer is yes then we are in an interesting timeline
Looking at the Google Earth pictures, it looks like this isn't a prison but a death camp.
Maybe that's why they are fighting so hard to bring him back, because everyone would learn what they did.
Edit: if your didn't see the posts, search CECOT on Google maps. It also looks like there might be mass graves up north.
They sent them to jail, yet we don't know what they exactly did (all they told us they were in a vegetable gang), we don't know how long they supposed to be jailed and how would they finish serving their sentence. Most of those people aren't even from El Salvador, so where would they go after.
It looks like they are never meant to leave the place and the payment was one time, so it looks like he just outsourced the killing.
CECOT Prisoners are not intended to leave, ever, according to Bukele's justice minister. 156 violent people shoved into 100 square meter cells with no regard for gang affiliation. Steel bunks 3 levels high - no mats, no windows, just a toilet and wash basin shared among everyone in a cell. They're fed rice without utensils, and provided zero outdoor time or visitation.
Basically a steel and concrete pit built to make people wish they got the death penalty.
Puppy Killer Noem, and a network news journalist have managed to get permission to get into that prison with camera crews, but somehow the entire HitlerPig administration cant seem to reach anyone who can authorize this guy's release?
I'm guessing Roberts and Alito know the admin will ignore this court order and pushed Thomas to make it unanimous for the fight to keep the judiciary an actual branch of the government that is to follow
The ruling is also meaningless. They ruled the US has to "facilitate" his return, but does not have to "effectuate" his return. The admin will interpret this to mean that as long as El Salvador doesn't take active steps to send him back, the US doesn't have to do anything to try to make them.
That’s wild, usually he can be counted on to write something about how Thomas Jefferson actually wanted everyone to get in fatal plane crashes every day.
Honestly, knowing the brutality of prisons... he might be dead. In which case, not only is it a showdown between the executive and judicial branches. It would lead to actual chaos as the Right has to try to make the unjust death of a man sound noble in the name of politics and the the Left struggles to figure out what the hell you do to bring justice when no one wants to serve it.
The Trump administration had, in these cases, doubled down with an argument that was incredible in its breadth: not only can courts not order the government to undo erroneous removals, it argued — it could also do the same to U.S. citizens, evading judicial scrutiny so long as it all took place before a lawsuit was filed.
Importantly, they replaced the lower Court's order to "effectuate" his return with "facilitate" and defined "facilitate" as to remove any barriers to his return on the US side.
So the ruling is actually "Don't prevent the government from which he was fleeing and that is now holding him prisoner in a labor camp from flying him back to the US for asylum."
There is a reply by the user monstrosity
with a quote in which the Supreme Court clarified that it meant effectuate, and they're holding a status meeting this morning to see what progress is made.
Oh no you're reading this wrong. SCOTUS just gave them permission. They said they must "facilitate" and that the lower courts order to "effectuate" was likely an over step.
The payload here is that facilitating means they'll send an official request that El Salvador will officially deny and then tell everyone they did everything they were ordered to do.
Nope, news everywhere has been fucking this headline up. SCOTUS defined the government's duty as requesting his release politely and allowing him back in if El Salvador does release him. The previous ruling would have forced the state department to tell El Salvador they must do it, or else. This is a far lower standard and will not be enough to get him released because the leadership in El Salvador knows Trump doesn't want the guy to come back.
How Abrego Garcia wound up in the mix remains unclear. The Trump administration frustrated one district court’s attempts to determine what happened by invoking the state secrets privilege over basic questions about the operation; it’s only said that Abrego Garcia was wrongly removed because he was placed on an alternate manifest that failed to note the order barring his removal.
After attorneys sued on Abrego Garcia’s behalf, a district court judge in Maryland, the state in which he was detained, ordered the government to facilitate his return.