The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a judge's order requiring it to return a Maryland man who was accidentally deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador to U.S.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man, was deported to El Salvador on March 15 despite a protective order.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Virginia, had ruled that the 11:59 p.m. Monday deadline would remain place.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

The Trump administration argued that a federal judge couldn’t force the government to remedy the mistake.

A federal judge called the deportation of a Maryland man to a notorious Salvadoran prison a “grievous error,” adding that the Trump administration’s conduct “shocks the conscience.” The judge has ordered the government to return the man,

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The Trump administration has until 11:59 p.m. Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who the government admits was accidentally deported to a high-security prison in El Salvador.

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to temporarily halt a judge's order requiring his administration to return by the end of the day a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was erroneously deported to El Salvador.