Chief Justice John Roberts has paused a Monday deadline for the Trump administration to return a protected Maryland resident who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants back to the United States through a judge’s order after the Justice Department urged the U.S. Supreme Court to do so.

Issuing an order on Monday afternoon, Roberts temporarily halted a preliminary injunction in which U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis gave the DOJ just over three days to facilitate bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the country, referring to his deportation as “an illegal act” in her order. The 29-year-old was sent to El Salvador on March 15 in error as part of Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rush through mass deportations, which have since been blocked by a federal judge, without providing due process to those being flown out of the country.

Abrego Garcia was in the U.S. with protected legal status at the time of his deportation. His wife and 5-year-old child are both U.S. citizens. The DOJ admitted to the lower court on Friday that his deportation was an “administrative error,” leading to the suspension of a 15-year DOJ vet who made the public confession.

The disgraced former CEO derisively known as “Pharma Bro” will not get to plead his case before the nation’s highest court.

Listed among dozens of pages of single-line orders issued Monday was the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of Martin Shkreli‘s appeal of a lower court ruling banning him for life from the pharmaceutical industry and ordering him to pay $64.6 million. As Law&Crime has previously reported, Shkreli — a convicted felon who served over five years in prison for defrauding hedge fund investors — became a household name after inflating the price of AIDS drug Daraprim by 5,000%. At the time, Daraprim was the only FDA-approved drug for the treatment of toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that poses serious and often life-threatening consequences for those with compromised immune systems, including babies born to women infected with the disease and individuals with HIV.

Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon pressed his case before the U.S. Supreme Court for immunity from criminal prosecution over the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“From 1789 to 2023, no former, or current, President faced criminal charges for his official acts— for good reason,” the former president’s 67-page brief begins. “The President cannot function, and the Presidency itself cannot retain its vital independence, if the President faces criminal prosecution for official acts once he leaves office.”

In late February, the 45th president convinced at least five justices to take up his case – appealing an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia finding Trump does not have presidential immunity from prosecution on charges alleging he criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Early voting in Colorado has been well underway and Super Tuesday is only days away with presidential primaries opening in 16 states and Donald Trump as the front-runner and presumptive nominee for the Republican Party. Despite this, the U.S. Supreme Court is still silent on whether it will remove the former president from the ballot in Colorado or keep him on despite findings from two lower courts that he engaged in insurrection.

The high court heard arguments over three weeks ago, fielding questions on the balance between state and federal powers and with Chief Justice John Roberts — and several other justices — expressing skepticism over whether a national election could “come down to just a handful of states.”

It seems unlikely that the court will rule in favor of Colorado voters who argue Trump’s conduct leading up to and on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should disqualify him under Section III of the Fourteenth Amendment. The statute states that no person having previously taken an oath as an “officer of the United States” and is found to have engaged in insurrection is qualified to hold office.

As a decision that could drastically shape the rest of the 2024 election season lurks just out of sight, the legal drama was otherwise unabated in Trump’s world for yet another week.

Law&Crime takes a look at those developments and others in Trump’s cases in Florida, Georgia, Washington, D.C., and New York.

This week, as Donald Trump‘s legal sagas plod ahead — and Super Tuesday fast approaches on March 5 — both he and special counsel Jack Smith are on tenterhooks as they await significant rulings that could shape the fate of Trump’s many criminal indictments. But anticipation — and tension — reached particularly new heights in Florida where U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon and Smith went head-to-head.

Law&Crime takes a look at those developments and others in Trump’s cases in Florida, Georgia, Washington, D.C., and New York.