Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week, we look at the left’s sudden flip-flopping on the Supreme Court, and cover more media misses.

Suddenly, the Supreme Court Is Good

The Nation’s Elie Mystal writes that Trump has been “racking up some wins at the Supreme Court and the answer for why is simple: John Roberts is a feckless coward.”

“He’s like a cop in Uvalde, cowering outside waiting for the shooting to stop, instead of doing his job,” Mystal said in a post on X sharing his column about the Court’s “rubber stamp rulings.”

The Trump administration insisted Sunday that it has no legal obligation to arrange for the return of a Maryland man illegally deported from the United States, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling last week only requires officials to admit him into the country if he makes it back from a high-security prison in El Salvador.

Less than a day after the Supreme Court said the Trump administration had to “facilitate” the return of a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, the case appeared headed for even murkier waters.

Attorney General Pam Bondi doubled down on the Trump administration's decision to deport alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to an El Salvadoran megaprison last month — insisting in a "Fox News Sunday" interview that ICE members have testified that the former Maryland resident is a member of the criminal gang, despite arguments to the contrary.

"His lawyers have argued he should be here because he was studying to be an electrician… let me give you a comparison," she said.

Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The temporary order comes hours after a Justice Department emergency appeal to the Supreme Court arguing U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis overstepped her authority when she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the United States.

The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a temporary reprieve from lower-court orders requiring it to bring back by midnight Monday a Salvadoran man officials say they deported in error to a prison in El Salvador.

The justices’ brief order on Monday means that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain, for now, in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, also known by its Spanish acronym, Cecot, while the high court considers the case.