The fight mirrors another, over the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported to a hellish prison camp in El Salvador based on negligible evidence of involvement in a gang the State Department has placed on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration last week to follow a lower court ruling and “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. The administration in response claims it is unable to do that and that the responsibility for getting him out of prison lies with El Salvador; the country’s president, Nayib Bukele—a staunch Trump ally—says he’ll do no such thing. Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the administration to answer questions about its apparent failure to comply with SCOTUS’s instructions within two weeks, and has indicated that she’s weighing contempt proceedings against the White House.
Zeldin demanded that Citibank “must immediately return all of the gold bars,” and official EPA communications have similarly raised the specter of some physical cache of actual gold bars. No such thing exists, of course. “Here we are, weeks in, and you’re still unable to proffer me any evidence with regard to malfeasance,” Chutkan told Justice Department lawyers during one hearing.
The Trump administration has put working-class immigrants and well-heeled environmental nonprofit executives in unusually similar situations: on the losing end of the GOP’s lawless crusade against its political enemies. These two groups face materially different threats, and stark differences in the resources they have on hand to respond to and weather White House attacks. The administration is thumbing its nose at the Supreme Court as a means to continue pushing the boundaries of its ability to punish adversaries and strip them of legal protections. Having already deported hundreds of Salvadoran and Venezuelan migrants, Trump has talked openly in recent days about wanting to send U.S. citizens to El Salvador’s gulags.
The point here isn’t to suggest that green nonprofit employees who are U.S. citizens are in imminent danger of being deported. But there’s no reason for anyone embracing a cause the administration deplores not to consider themselves on notice. As major law firms and Ivy League universities continue to capitulate to the administration’s bullying, less exalted groups have a shared, vested interest in continuing to put up as much of a fight as possible. It isn’t unreasonable, that is, to expect that the weapons being sharpened on undocumented immigrants and pro-Palestine green card holders might at some point be turned on climate activists too.
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