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NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian and legal analyst Danny Cevallos think that an appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals backfired against President Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Dilanian addressed the case involving Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland man brought to the U.S. as a teenager 15 years ago. García was detained by the government and shipped to an El Salvador prison despite a judge saying that he could not be sent to El Salvador. The Justice Department's lawyers called the deportation a "clerical error," and admitted in court that he was wrongfully deported to the prison.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the government must "facilitate" the return of García, but the word "facilitate" has become part of the argument between the Justice Department, the judge and lawyers for García's family.

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Dilanian cited conservative Appeals Court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, who took the lead on the Thursday ruling: "He went on to sort of use this case as an argument against Trump administration's approach to judges in general, and to calls for impeachment of judges whose rulings they don't like, and to raise the specter that this is really undermining the rule of law."

Cevallos explained the procedural steps, noting that the Trump administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which then sent the case back to the district court. However, the DOJ sought another appeal of the lower court's decisions.

"And the Trump administration is saying to the circuit court of appeals, hey, help us out. We don't like this district court directive to provide this information. And I've got to tell you, in reading this seven-page opinion, it's as if the appeals court is saying, you're coming to us for help? We don't like anything you're doing. You came to the wrong place."

Cevallos explained that this could ultimately harm the Trump administration.

"As Ken can tell you, within that decision, they also added some other interpretation of words like 'facilitate,'" Cevallos said, recalling the words from the Supreme Court's ruling. "Remember, the government has to facilitate García's return. And almost gratuitously, the Fourth Circuit said, hey, here's what we think facilitate means. Not for nothing, as they say in New Jersey, this is what we think that word means, and what we think you should be doing. I don't think they really needed to do that. They could have just said, hey, a request for emergency help from us: denied. Go back down there to the district court and let this play out."

The appeals court took a different route, he noted.

"But instead they went on for about seven pages, describing all the reasons why they think the administration — they meaning the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals — why the court believes that the Trump administration is not doing this right. And I think this emergency appeal may come back to haunt them because it further fleshes out these words like 'facilitate,' 'return,' that I can see the district court using in its own final decision."

Cevallos went on to explain that they must follow a court order until the court decides otherwise.

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An April poll shows President Donald Trump is losing his biggest polling advantage over Democrats.

“Bad news for the White House per @EchelonInsights,” wrote Snapchat host Peter Hamby. “Dems are now tied with Republicans on the question of who would do a better job on inflation and the cost of living.”

Digital monitoring company Echelon Insights' April 2025 Voter Omnibus package revealed that "on the issue of inflation and cost of living," Trump and Democrats now share 43% approval. It also showed Trump’s overall approval going negative with 51% disapproving and 47% approving, only four months into his term, which is commonly considered still within the White House “honeymoon phase” for many presidents.

Additionally, 48% of respondents say Donald Trump “does not have a thorough plan and end-goal for tariffs, compared with 42% who say he does.”

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This marks a change from February, when the Pew Research Center reported that about three-quarters of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (73%) expected the economy to be better a year into President Donald Trump’s second term. Last year, Gallup reported the economy to be the “most important” issue in the 2024 election vote, which promises problems for Republicans leading the US House in the midterms if the economy remains voters' highest priority.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the November election mere weeks after the same poll reported that “voters view Donald Trump as better able than Kamala Harris to handle the economy, 54% versus 45%."

House Majority PAC Communication Director CJ Warnke posted on X that Echelon Insights information mirrors other polling over the last two weeks “consistently show[ing] Trump's Econ approval sinking lower and lower. Echelon: -8% CBS/YouGov: -12% Fabrizio Ward: -8% Navigator Research: -13% Morning Consult: -3% Economist/YouGov: -10%.”