In the case of the wrongfully removed immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump administration is defying — and lying about — a Supreme Court order.

Donald Trump’s administration has a new excuse for violating an order from the Supreme Court to return a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. In a seven-page filing Sunday, lawyers for the Department of Justice argued that the federal courts did not have the authority to order the executive branch to “conduct foreign relations” with another country,

I dunno, I go on holiday for a few days and in my absence Donald Trump has turned the US’s already messed-up tariff schedule into the kind of hopelessly tangled cat’s cradle that even the most down-and-out feline* would reject as a place of repose.