The facts underlying Noem v. Abrego Garcia are shocking, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants. The Supreme Court just ruled that the immigrant at the heart of the case get some relief — but that relief is only partial.

In mid-March, Trump’s government deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, where he is currently detained in a notorious prison supposedly reserved for terrorists. He was deported even though, in 2019, an immigration judge had issued an order explicitly forbidding the government from sending Abrego Garcia to El Salvador because he faced a “clear probability of future persecution” if returned to that nation. This court order is still in effect today.

No one, including Trump’s own lawyers, has tried to justify this decision under the law. The administration claims that Abrego Garcia was deported as the result of an “administrative error.” When a federal judge asked a Justice Department lawyer why the federal government cannot bring him back to this country, that lawyer responded, “The first thing I did was ask my........

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