Ranging from education policy to voting, the rulings marked the latest legal setbacks for the Trump administration, which is battling nearly 200 lawsuits in court.

As criticism of that stance spread, and federal courts sided against the administration, Vice President J. D. Vance, the Trump adviser Stephen Miller, Bondi, and other top Cabinet officials went on the attack. The White House went from calling Abrego Garcia’s deportation a “clerical error” to insisting that no mistake had been made at all.

A judge has granted the Department of Justice an extension in the deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was sent to El Salvador as part of an "administrative error" the administration is reportedly not working to fix.