The anti-constitutionalists haven’t won yet! There is still an attempt at truth, justice, and the American way (the good side of it) in these United States of America! It is coming from where it has always emanated: the courts – this time, with a federal judge cancelling the human trafficking trial of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In place of that trial is a January 28 hearing on malicious prosecution, to explore the justification and evidence of the government‘s case against him.

Since the criminal case against Abrego Garcia did not exist until the administration was politically harassed into returning him from the El Salvadoran prison to which he’d been erroneously banished, examining how it came to be is reasonable, to say the least. It is a celebratory moment to savor. Even a U. S. Supreme Court that is heavily sympathetic to President Trump issued the chief executive a rare defeat this week in holding he cannot deploy the National Guard to Illinois.

The moral of the story is to be as litigious as we have to be as American citizens, organizations, politicians, municipalities – you name it. It does not always work, we know, but it gives the American people a fighting chance. The courts give us hope. It is not a foregone conclusion that the malicious prosecution case will end in Abrego Garcia‘s favor, but the odds do feel on his side.

Now, while the legal gods are working to restore the life of this one man, may they save some mojo for asylum applicants and thunder bolts for those rounding them up at their official asylum meetings and hearings. Asylum seekers have valid legal standing to make their case to remain in the country where they have requested safety and security. It has been unimaginably sadistic to round people up when they are on the verge of attaining their Holy Grail.

Yet again, a federal judge has put a foot down on this point, in favor of the American way – in favor of American law. This week in San Francisco, a District Court judge barred Immigration and Customs officers, as well as their Justice Department colleagues, from arresting people outside of immigration court in Northern California.

May other judges follow. Immediately. May the courts keep giving us hope!