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Chief Justice Roberts Temporarily Freezes Order To Retrieve Migrant the Trump Administration Deported by Mistake

The government urges the high court to reject what it calls ‘district-court diplomacy.’

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President Trump greets Chief Justice Roberts ahead of his address to a joint session of Congress, March 4, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images
A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Chief Justice Roberts’s temporary freeze of a deadline in the emergency appeal filed by the Trump administration to the Supreme Court over the fate of a mistakenly deported Salvadorean paints in sharp relief the emerging clash between the White House and the federal judiciary.

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A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.

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