LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s easing of green policies has won the backing of Donald Trump.
In a post on his Truth Social media account late Saturday, the former U.S. president congratulated Sunak for announcing last week that he is paring back his green pledges.
Sunak has confirmed a major roll-back of several key U.K. green policies, including easing the transition to electric vehicles and shifting a date for a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 until 2035. He also promised there would be more time to transition to heat pumps.
“I always knew Sunak was smart, that he wasn’t going to destroy and bankrupt his nation for fake climate alarmists that don’t have a clue,” Trump wrote.
Trump, who is leading the polls in the contest for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, said the U.S. “keeps rolling merrily along, spending Trillions of Dollars trying to do that which is not doable, while at the same time breathing in the filthy and totally untreated air floating over our once great Country from China, India, Russia, and Parts Unknown.”
Sunak argued last week that continuing with the current climate policies risked “losing the consent of the British people — and the resulting backlash will not just be against specific policies, but against the wider mission itself, meaning we might never achieve our goal.” But Sunak insists he is still committed to reaching net zero by 2050.
Trump added: “Congratulations to Prime Minister Sunak for recognizing this SCAM before it was too late!”
<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/supremecourt-17-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Supreme Court likely to let vape company’s FDA challenge proceed" title="Supreme Court likely to let vape company’s FDA challenge proceed" style="float:right;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/supremecourt-17-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/supremecourt-17-570x570.jpg 570w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/supremecourt-17-500x500.jpg 500w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/supremecourt-17-1000x1000.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administration’s effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit,...</p>
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<p>The justices agreed that Xinis could require the Trump administration to “‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to” that country. But the justices sent the case back to the lower court for Xinis to “clarify” her additional instruction that the Trump administration “effectuate” his return.</p>
<p>In making that clarification, the justices wrote, Xinis should take note of the “deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” On the other hand, they added, the Trump administration “should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken” to secure Abrego Garcia’s return “and the prospect of further steps.”<span id="more-319741"></span></p>
<p>The man at the center of the case is 29-year-old Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was born in El Salvador and came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant as a teenager to escape gang violence in his home country. Since 2019, he has lived outside Washington, D.C., with his wife – a U.S. citizen – and their three children, all of whom are also U.S. citizens.</p>
<p>In 2019, immigration officials began efforts to deport Abrego Garcia. When he sought to be released from immigration custody with a bond, the government contended that he was a member of MS-13, an international criminal gang.</p>
<p>An immigration judge denied Abrego Garcia’s request for release, finding that “the evidence shows he is a verified member of MS-13.” Although the judge acknowledged that she was “reluctant to give evidentiary weight” to Abrego Garcia’s “clothing as an indication of gang affiliation,” she concluded that it was enough that a “past, proven, and reliable source of information” had verified Abrego Garcia’s “gang membership, gang rank, and gang name.” The Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed that ruling.</p>
<p>Several months later, Abrego Garcia was eventually granted withholding of removal – a form of immigration relief that protects him from being deported to El Salvador. In particular, an immigration judge concluded, Abrego Garcia had shown that gang members in El Salvador continue “to threaten and harass” his family, and authorities in that country “were and would be unable or unwilling to protect him from past or feared future persecution.”</p>
<p>On March 12, 2025, ICE officers took Abrego Garcia into custody. He was sent to Texas and then, on March 24, to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center. Detainees who arrive there from the United States are stripped, shackled, and have their heads shaved. Neither Abrego Garcia’s wife nor his lawyers have spoken with him since then.</p>
<p>Abrego Garcia’s lawyers filed a lawsuit in federal court in Maryland, asking Xinis to instruct Trump administration officials to “take all steps reasonably available to them, proportionate to the gravity of the ongoing harm, to return Plaintiff Abrego Garcia to the United States.”<br />
Xinis ordered the federal government to return Abrego Garcia by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 7. The government, she emphasized, “had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador—let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere.”</p>
<p>Both Xinis and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit declined to pause the return order while the government appealed. In a concurring opinion joined by Judge Robert King, Judge Stephanie Thacker wrote that the federal government “has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene,” she concluded, “are unconscionable.”</p>
<p>President Donald Trump’s new solicitor general, D. John Sauer, came to the Supreme Court on Monday morning, without even waiting for the 4th Circuit to act on his request to pause the return order. He contended that Xinis had “ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m.” that night.</p>
<p>Sauer reiterated the Trump administration’s complaints about what he characterized as “a deluge of unlawful injunctions” by federal judges around the country. But even compared to those orders, he argued, Xinis’s order “is remarkable.” And he asked the justices to impose an administrative stay – that is, a temporary freeze on Xinis’s order to give the court time to consider the Trump administration’s request.</p>
<p>Shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts granted the administrative stay, and he directed Abrego Garcia’s lawyers to file their response by 5 p.m. on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Just a few minutes later, however, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers submitted their response. They urged the justices to deny the Trump administration’s request and order the government to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s immediate return to halt the ongoing irreparable harm he suffers and advance the public interest in the proper administration of justice.”</p>
<p>Abrego Garcia’s lawyers stressed that their client “has never been charged with a crime, in any country. He is not wanted by the Government of El Salvador. He sits in a foreign prison solely at the best of the United States, as the product of a Kafka-esque mistake.” Moreover, they added, there is nothing “novel” about requiring the federal government to facilitate his return.</p>
<p>Xinis downplayed the government’s contention that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13. She emphasized that the “‘evidence’ against Abrego Garcia consisted of nothing more than his Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, and a vague, uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s ‘Western’ clique in New York—a place he has never lived.”</p>
<p>In a two-page opinion released shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Thursday night, the court noted that, as a result of the administrative stay granted by Roberts on Monday, the Monday deadline for Abrego Garcia’s return “has now passed,” so that a portion of the government’s application “is effectively granted.” But, the court explained, the remainder of Xinis’s order “remains in effect but requires clarification on remand.” Specifically, the court continued, it is not clear what it means for the government to “effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return, and Xinis may not have the power to order the government to do so.</p>
<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote an opinion regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday, which was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. She indicated that she would have turned down the government’s request “in full.” But she nonetheless agreed with her colleagues that “the proper remedy is to provide Abrego Garcia with all the process to which he would have been entitled had he now been unlawfully removed to El Salvador.” This includes, she stressed, “notice and an opportunity to be heard” in future proceedings, international conventions prohibiting torture, and federal laws governing the detention and removal of noncitizens. Moreover, she added, in other kinds of immigration proceedings, the federal government has a “well-established policy” of facilitating a noncitizen’s return to the United States.</p>
<p>“In the proceedings on remand,” she concluded, Xinis “should continue to ensure that the Government lives up to its obligations to follow the law.”</p>
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<p>Shortly after the government came to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit denied the Department of Justice’s request to block the order. “The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process,” the unanimous 4th Circuit wrote.</p>
<p>John Sauer, who was confirmed as the U.S. solicitor general last week, told the justices that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had “ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight.” Sauer also asked the court to grant an administrative stay, which would freeze Xinis’s order long enough to give the justices time to consider his request.<span id="more-319509"></span></p>
<p>Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was born in El Salvador and came to this country as an undocumented immigrant. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal, which means that he is protected against being removed to El Salvador because of the likelihood that he would be harmed if returned there. He has never been charged with or convicted of a crime.</p>
<p>On March 12, Abrego Garcia was taken into ICE custody and eventually moved to Texas and, from there, to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center. The detainees who arrived there from the U.S. were stripped, shackled, and had their heads shaved. No one has heard from Abrego Garcia since he arrived in El Salvador.</p>
<p>Lawyers representing Abrego Garcia went to federal court in Maryland, where Abrego Garcia lived with his wife and three children, seeking his return to the United States. The federal government acknowledged that Abrego Garcia should not have been taken to El Salvador, but it countered that Xinis lacked the power to consider Abrego Garcia’s case because (among other things) he was now in El Salvador and because the U.S government lacks any ability to get him back.</p>
<p>In a brief ruling on Friday, followed by a longer written decision on Sunday, Xinis instructed the federal government to return Abrego Garcia by 11:59 p.m. on Monday. The government, she stressed, “had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador—let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere.”</p>
<p>Xinis declined to put her ruling on hold to give the government time to appeal, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (in an order that appeared on the docket after the Trump administration submitted its filing to the Supreme Corut) did the same.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/354843/20250407103341248_Kristi%20Noem%20application.pdf">his 25-page filing</a>, Sauer contended that “[e]ven amidst a deluge of unlawful injunctions” – apparently referring to other court orders blocking Trump administration policies – “this order is remarkable” because even Abrego Garcia had not asked the federal courts “to force the United States to persuade El Salvador to release” him “on a judicially mandated clock.” The federal government, Sauer maintained, “cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations in advance, least of all when a court imposes an absurdly compressed, mandatory deadline that vastly complicates the give-and-take of foreign-relations negotiations.”</p>
<p>Sauer also repeated the government’s contention that Abrego Garcia was a member of the international criminal gang Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization. Abrego Garcia disputes this, and in her written order Xinis noted that “the ‘evidence’ against Abrego Garcia consisted of nothing more than his Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, and a vague, uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s ‘Western’ clique in New York—a place he has never lived.”</p>
<p>Sauer conceded that Abrego Garcia’s “removal to El Salvador was an administrative error.” But that, he continued, does not give district courts the authority to “seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate diplomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organization into America tonight.”</p>
<p><em>This article was <a href="https://amylhowe.com/2025/04/07/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s/">originally published at Howe on the Court</a>. </em></p>
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