So, I guess, if El Salvador decides to comply with the SCOTUS decision, the US has to provide a plane. Or maybe a bus. Seems like due process is purely voluntary at this point.

I just can't imagine being the guy who decides to litigate this as long as possible knowing they renditioned an innocent father.

That language is in the right direction of a summary, but the Court did not hold that the district court erred — merely that the district court must clarify that part of its order on remand, in light of the deference the Judiciary owes to the Executive in foreign policy matters.

Fortunately, in the other related case Judge Boasberg has been carefully & systematically building a contempt case against the DOJ lawyers. The Supreme Court ruling on procedural grounds yesterday does not make it moot. Remains to be seen whether a contempt verdict could be enforced, but Boasberg is a patriot doing heroic work.

The original gov. lawyer was put on leave after not wanting to be that guy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/justice-dept-...

A few key things to note in the decision

* The decision is unanimous with no dissents.

* This case is pretty atypical of the other cases involving people deported to Cecot(the El Salvadorian prison) in that the govt straight up admitted that they had deported this person in error

This case is almost certainly not indicative of the supreme court's thinking on the broader issue as the facts involved were very clear, and there are no real broad implications (regardless of what the govt asserted)

The case regarding the applicability of the Alien Enemies Act without the exigent circumstances of a war or genuine existential threat to the nation is the key case to watch.