Now that there’s a Republican in the White House, Mallory McMorrow wants to talk about a “constitutional crisis.”

“I don’t use the phrase ‘Constitutional crisis’ lightly, but Donald Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court and now threatening to send American citizens to foreign prisons,” the Democratic state senator from Royal Oak posted to X on Wednesday. “Let’s talk about it.”

The post was accompanied by a video of the U.S. Senate candidate weighing in on illegal immigrant and MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador.

“Donald Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court, so let’s be clear right now, this is how constitutional crises begin,” McMorrow alleged in the video.

“The Trump administration admitted that it deported a man to El Salvador by mistake due to a clerical error,” she said, using finger quotes for clerical error. “The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the prison in El Salvador.

“At first, Trump said he would respect the Supreme Court’s ruling, but then he reversed course – no surprise, and in a meeting with the president of El Salvador he said he had no plans to facilitate the man’s return,” McMorrow continued.

“Then it got worse. In that same meeting, Trump suggested that El Salvador should build an additional five facilities, and then suggested that homegrowns are next,” she said, again with air quotes for homegrowns. “When pressed by reporters, Trump wouldn’t say if he still respects the Supreme Court’s ruling.”

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Not only are McMorrow’s comments inaccurate and misleading, they omit critical context involving both the case and her own party’s history of flaunting the judicial system.

On Monday, Trump administration officials set the record straight on Garcia, highlighting the reasons why he was deported and the crux of the Supreme Court’s ruling in his case.

“This was just one of those examples of an individual that is a MS-13 gang member, multiple charges and encounters with the individuals here, trafficking in his background, was found with other MS-13 gang members – very dangerous person, and what the liberal left and fake news are doing to turn him into a media darling is sickening,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, elaborated on the Supreme Court ruling.

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“The Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were unlawful and reversed 9-0 unanimously, stating clearly that neither the Secretary of State or President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador who, again, is a member of MS-13, which – as I’m sure you understand – rapes little girls, murders women, murders children, is engaged in barbaric activities in the world,” he said. “And I can promise you if he was your neighbor, you would move right away.”

Federal officials insist any decision to return Garcia rests with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who said during a visit to the White House on Monday that’s not going to happen.

“Of course, I’m not going to do it,” Bukele said. “The question is preposterous.”

Bukele also made it clear Garcia won’t be released in El Salvador, either, NBC News reports.

“We’re not very fond of releasing terrorists,” he said.

Attorney General Pam Bondi acknowledged the Trump administration failed to take “one extra step of paperwork” before deporting Garcia, but said at a press conference Wednesday he’s “not coming back to our country.”

“President Bukele said he was not sending him back. That’s the end of the story,” she told reporters, according to The Hill. “If he wanted to send him back, we would give him a plane ride back. There was no situation ever where he was going to stay in this country. None, none.”

McMorrow’s misleading commentary on Garcia prompted her followers to confront the senator with a Wednesday X post from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin detailing numerous allegations of domestic abuse from Garcia’s wife.

Others pointed to a long history of Democrats disparaging and attacking the Supreme Court, ignoring court rulings, and undermining the American justice system in general.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, offered numerous recent examples during a committee hearing last month.

“I’m happy that Democrats have finally discovered the importance of respecting the judiciary. They certainly didn’t hold this view when President Biden was in office,” Grassley said.

“President Biden ignored the Court’s position that the CDC’s eviction moratorium was unconstitutional and his own lawyers’ advice that he couldn’t do it. He went ahead and extended it anyway, and the Court had to strike it down,” he said. “President Biden boasted that the Court’s decision on student loan forgiveness ‘didn’t stop him.’

“The Biden administration undermined the Court’s 2023 decision that racial discrimination in college admissions is unconstitutional, and even issued a Dear Colleague letter on how to circumvent that ruling,” Grassley continued.

“More broadly, President Biden flouted law after law throughout his entire administration. He ignored the plain text of our immigration laws, the parole statute and our civil rights laws in the name of advancing his agenda,” he said. “You know what? I heard no complaint from my Democratic colleagues.”

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin put Garcia’s situation in proper context during recent comments to Fox News.

“I think this illegal alien is exactly where he belongs – home in El Salvador,” she said. “He was in our country illegally, he is from El Salvador, was born in El Salvador, and oh, the media forgot to mention: He is a MS-13 gang member. The media would love for you to believe that this is a media darling, that he is just a Maryland father.

“Osama Bin Laden was also a father, and yet he was not a good guy, and they actually are both terrorists,” Mclaughlin said. “He should be in this El Salvador prison, a prison for terrorists, and I hope he will remain there.”