President Trump’s firing spree of independent agency leaders is running into a 90-year-old Supreme Court case that judges have used to block many of those ousters.

Now Mr. Trump’s allies are looking to the Supreme Court to overturn the case, or at least carve out new exceptions to justify the president’s house cleaning.

Welcome to The Logoff: Today I’m focusing on a showdown between the administration and the courts over a wrongful deportation, a critical test of the judicial branch’s ability to check Donald Trump’s power.

What’s the latest? Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge on Sunday that they were not required to bring back a man who was wrongfully sent to El Salvador. And at a White House visit today, El Salvador’s president made clear that he’s not sending the man back either.

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 Supreme Court has interceded six times in less than three months to rein in federal judges who improperly exceeded their Article III authority and infringed on the Article II authority of President Donald Trump. Yet the high court continues to issue mealy-mouthed opinions which serve only to exacerbate the ongoing battle between the Executive and Judicial branches of government. And now there is a constitutional crisis primed to explode this week in a federal court in Maryland over the removal of an El Salvadoran — courtesy of the justices’ latest baby-splitting foray on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration must “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongfully deported Maryland man, to the US, but scrapped the deadline set by a lower court for his homecoming.

The US Supreme Court has instructed the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-jail in El Salvador.

The Supreme Court has ruled Donald Trump’s administration must “facilitate” the return of a wrongfully deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia imprisoned in a brutal El Salvador jail.

In a week that re-centered the Constitution, reinforced the law, and reignited the principle of national sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court handed the American people a massive win: a 5-4 ruling affirming the Trump administration’s right to deport dangerous foreign nationals using the Alien Enemies Act—a law that’s been on the books since 1798.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the target of new ire from President Trump’s most fervent supporters after she bucked his position on a key case earlier this week.

Barrett joined — albeit only in part — a dissenting opinion penned by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday. The case revolves around the highly controversial claim from the Trump administration that it is entitled to deport Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Not to say I told you so. But let’s be real — I’m fully and completely, unashamedly, absolutely saying I told you so. And the Supreme Court of the United States just backed me up. Again.