Even though the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has to make an effort to bring back a man from Maryland who was illegally deported to El Salvador, it seems unlikely that it will actually do so.

For far too long, media outlets have taken members of the Trump administration at their word. For the media to do its job, a lot more skepticism is needed, beginning with simple announcements concerning purported law enforcement victories.

The Trump administration has no interest in seeing a man returned to the United States who was illegally sent to El Salvador. The president made that very clear on Saturday… in a way that he probably thought was pretty clever.