Trump has been warned 'he's alienating his allies on the Supreme Court right now': MSNBC
The decision, so far, by Donald Trump's administration to ignore the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison to his family has the president on a path for a showdown with the nation's highest court where he may come out on the losing end.
That is the opinion of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough who pointed out the president has had every opportunity to back down and put out the firestorm he has created, but has chosen not to.
Speaking with his panel on Wednesday morning, he compared the controversy to what he called "Signalgate," where Trump administration officials used an unsecure chatroom to discuss an upcoming military attack in Yemen.
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"Just admit you made a mistake. It will be better for you in the long run and they wouldn't admit that they made a mistake," he suggested before adding, "And the White House will tell you that that was the first big bump in the road for them politically."
"It didn't have to happen that way," he advised. "Same thing here: say we made a mistake, alright? They've already said that they can bring him back to the United States, they can, they can go through deportation process and then work with the courts to figure out where to deport him, where he can go safely and that's something, again, they win, he gets deported if he's here illegally and he doesn't get the sort of blow back."
"But this isn't an issue that's going to go away and they need to figure that out," he explained. "And when they figure that out, you know, the things –– well, again, we'll get to it –– but things will get worse for them. "
"As the Wall Street Journal has said, as other constitutional scholars have said, he's alienating his allies on the Supreme Court right now, and they need to quit while they're behind," he concluded.
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