My take-away from today’s Advisory Opinions podcast: by jerking around with the federal courts on the Salvadorian gulag and summary deportations thereto, especially the smirky-faced White House sitdown with strongman Bukele (where they mocked the courts), the Trump administration has forfeited the “presumption of regularity,” akin to a presumption of good faith, in the area of deportation, probably immigration, and possibly in everything.

It’s all uphill from here. The courts will not be cutting them any breaks, and when a federal judge is cutting you no breaks, treating you like other sleazy litigants, life can get pretty hard.

They’ve earned a presumption of bad faith in fewer than three months.