In the administration’s emergency application, D. John Sauer, the U.S. solicitor general, said Judge Xinis had exceeded her authority by engaging in “district-court diplomacy,” because it would require working with the government of El Salvador to secure his release.
“If this precedent stands,” he wrote, “other district courts could order the United States to successfully negotiate the return of other removed aliens anywhere in the world by close of business,” he wrote. “Under that logic, district courts would effectively have extraterritorial jurisdiction over the United States’ diplomatic relations with the whole world.”
What a steaming pile. The lower court does not seek, nor is it claiming, authority for
“district-court diplomacy.” It seeks the return of a man sent to El Salvador illegally. The converse of Sauer's argument is........what is to prevent more extralegal deportations at the whim of the regime if they can do so without accountability.