The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has denied the Trump administration’s request that it block a federal judge’s orders, one of which required it to facilitate the return of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador whom the government said was deported to his home country due to an administrative error.
“While we fully respect the Executive’s robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision,” Judge Harvie Wilkinson said on April 17 in a statement joined by two other circuit judges.
