Donald Trump’s administration has a new excuse for violating an order from the Supreme Court to return a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. In a seven-page filing Sunday, lawyers for the Department of Justice argued that the federal courts did not have the authority to order the executive branch to “conduct foreign relations” with another country,

The administration’s position suggests officials do not view the Supreme Court’s order as compelling them to seek Abrego Garcia’s return.