Chief Justice John Roberts placed a hold on a Maryland judge's order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

A federal judge in Maryland temporarily defused a showdown with the Trump administration after it defied her order to provide information on how it intended to bring a wrongly deported man back to the United States.

The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The US Supreme Court has directed the Trump administration to return a man it erroneously deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador,

The administration’s refusal to comply with a judge’s directives threatened to erupt into a showdown between the executive and judicial branches.

The Supreme Court said Thursday that the Trump administration is required to "facilitate" the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison. The court partly granted and partly rejected an emergency request filed by the Justice Department contesting a judge’s order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be retrieved from a prison in El Salvador where he was sent March 15 along with men alleged to be Venezuelan gang members.

The Supreme Court ordered the Trump Administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. after the White House mistakenly deported him to a notorious El Salvador prison.