Chief Justice John Roberts intervened to preserve the Trump administration's termination of two federal board members - a temporary win as the administration seeks to carve out the extent of the executive's power.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could continue to deport Venezuelan migrants using a wartime powers act for now, overturning a lower court that had put a temporary stop to the deportations.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man, was deported to El Salvador on March 15 despite a protective order.

The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a court-imposed midnight deadline to return to the US a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, agreeing to a request from President Donald Trump that will give the justices more time to consider the case.

The chief justice, acting on his own, issued an “administrative stay,” a brief pause meant to give the court time to consider the matter. The justices are expected to act in the coming days.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident protected from deportation by a 2019 court order who has lived in the U.S. since 2011, was deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison on March 15.

A U.S. appeals court has declined to block a federal judge’s ruling that said the United States must bring a man back to Maryland after he was wrongly deported to El Salvador amid the Trump administration’s hardline crackdown on immigration.

March, the Trump administration sent more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador, using an archaic wartime law to deport many of them without any legal review or due process.

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