Footnote 1 reads: > There is a fourth option: Bukele could announce that Abrego Garcia is dead, so his return is no longer possible and the case is closed with

Footnote 1 reads: > There is a fourth option: Bukele could announce that Abrego Garcia is dead, so his return is no longer possible and the case is closed without him having had to render a decision. This may be to Trump's benefit in several ways. First, he gets the result he wants despite the "administrative error." Second, unless the federal courts employ the "capable of repetition yet evading review" exception, or some other exception, to the mootness doctrine, the case would be moot; the courts can do nothing; Trump claims victory; and we have on our hands, at least for a while, bad precedent (or a case whose precedential value Trump can contort to his own ends). No doubt there are other advantages to him, but these two are salient.