The legal world has been on notice for a constitutional clash since Trump resumed office, meticulously analyzing a series of court rulings that challenge the White House.

A court ruled that the Trump administration wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but the president and his advisers have been defiant.

Merwil Gutiérrez was arrested just steps from his home in the Bronx and deported to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison.

It defies a Supreme Court ruling, flouts a lower court ruling, and undermines the basic principle that the government