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Two weeks ago, a remarkable thing happened in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the young family man sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
After the Supreme Court ruled 9–0 to affirm a federal district court order directing the regime to “facilitate and effectuate the return [of Abrego Garcia] …to the United States,” Stephen Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff, lied to a national audience that the Supreme Court stated the opposite.
During a meeting with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, who has become one of Trump’s paid henchmen (apparently in violation of U.S. law), something extraordinary happened, even by the standards of this regime.
Miller claimed that the Supreme Court affirmed the regime’s position on the case instead of rejecting it outright. It was as if the Supreme Court did not order the regime to “facilitate and effectuate the return [of Abrego Garcia] …to the United States,” and instead said, “We’re cool. Keep him in the foreign gulag.”