CNN’s Elie Honig on Abrego Garcia: ‘Trump Administration Is Defying the Spirit of the Court’s Order, but Not Quite the Letter’

RUSH EXCERPT:

HONIG: "Well, so let‘s start with the one we‘re in right now, which I call passive aggressive defiance by the administration. And this is all about the word facilitation. So the Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the Trump Administration has a duty to facilitate abrego Garcia return to the country, not effectuate. And the difference there facilitate means. Essentially, you have to help out. You have to try effectuate means. You have to get it done. The Supreme Court said, well, it‘s not our business to order the executive Branch how to conduct foreign policy, but we need you to facilitate now. Facilitation is in the eye of the beholder. Clearly, the court‘s meant you have to make a real good faith effort. But the Trump Administration has taken the most minimalist possible view on facilitation. They‘ve said we don‘t have to ask for his return. We don‘t have to do anything. Affirmative. All we have to do is make sure there‘s no domestic obstacles in the way. Now, the fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, a very conservative judge named harvie wilkinson on Thursday basically rejected that. He said, we need you to do something affirmative. It‘s an active word.”