From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Supreme Court rules that the judiciary may tell the White House to facilitate the return of a man deported in error to a prison in El Salvador.

But the White House is pushing back, including in an Oval Office meeting with the Salvadorian

president this week.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnists Kim Strassel, and Mary Anastasio Grady.

This legal fight is over.

Kilmar Armando O'Brego Garcia.

In court, the administration had previously admitted that it mistakenly deported him to El Salvador,

despite a court order saying that he faced a threat to his life,

violence in El Salvador, and could not be sent back there.

The state of the legal appeal now is the United States Supreme Court in a short order on Thursday.

Upheld the lower court, the district court's order, saying that the White House would have to facilitate his return to the United States.

Though with a bit of a caveat.

So this is from the Supreme Court.

The order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrago Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador.

It goes on to say, though, that the intended scope of the term effectuate, which had been used by the lower judge,

is unclear and may exceed the district court's authority.

It suggested that the lower court clarify that directive with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs, unquote.

Kim, we now are sitting here taping this on Tuesday afternoon.

This district court judge has a hearing scheduled for today, so we'll have to wait and see what she does.

But notable, the majority at the Supreme Court seeming to try to find the narrow path between letting the government

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