Scalia had the same opinion as Gorsuch in this case. It was a vague law.
This decision is very, very bad news. It will make it virtually impossible to characterize illegal aliens who commit violent felonies as violent, even when their crimes are as egregious as armed robbery or murder.
The remedy, to pass a new immigration law, is completely beyond reach given the composition and rules of the Senate, and frankly, even if McConnell nuked the filibuster, I don't think we'd have enough votes to change the law even then.
I don't blame Trump, but it looks very much like we've been had, again.
What a fargin disaster.
Bullcrap. A Constitutionalist judge will sometimes return a ruling we don't like politically, such as in this case when the law is poorly written. You might like the end results of what that law intended, but due process still needs to be observed, lest we get another version of civil asset forfeiture.
.... The swamp beasties more than likely have a vast array of FBI files on just about everybody by now so the denizens are using them to their advantage. It’s what they do.
“HUGE gift to the open-borders crowd.”
Nope. This will force congress to change the law.
I think this is overwraught. The problem is the law is vague and Gorsuch is not interested in writing law from the bench. Embrace that and lets get the law re-written!
Well, so much for listening to the GOPE.... Our ‘establishment’ sucks...
https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/gorsuch-dead-wrong-immigration/
I want to throw out a possible way to bypass Gorsuch’s treachery.
The Immigration Act of 1965 gives wide discretion to the President for enforcing immigration law.
For instance, Obama dreamed up “Deferred Prosecution” for the DACA kids.
Why can't Trump simply write a new enforcement regulation that contains a laundry list of specific crimes that illegal aliens will be deported for?
That would not violate the intent of the “vague” language in any way.
Trump could write that tomorrow if he wanted to.
The ruling didn’t have anything to do with the merits of deportation. It has to do with the vagerious and capriciousness of the law making it a tool of oppression.
Poorly written laws become tools of oppression.
If we gave a referendum to the entire country
“SHOULD OUR COUNTRY HAVE BORDERS AT ALL?”
I fear what the vote would be.
We have lost all common sense even on the Supreme Court.
just remember, the government is made up of three, equal, powers. The Supremes are 1/3 of that. IN other words, they can be overridden by act of Congress backed by the President. 2/3 beats 1/3. It is a mistake to believe that the Supremes are the final, no arguments left, word. They aren’t.
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The swamp blackmailed him? Perhaps something on tape was told to him? It worked on Roberts.
Gorsuch wants laws to be crystal clear and solid - leaving them vague and “open to interpretation” sucks the big one - he was pretty much telling them to clean it up and properly define it.
I really think you have this wrong.
Gorsuch wrote a 31-page opinion of his own dissecting the reasons he voted the way he did.
Stop being so hysterical and think for yourselves. Bad cases make bad law.
I thought we hated Mark Levin. Why are we now agreeing with his views on an opinion by a Donald Trump appointee? Did I miss a memo?
I guess getting your balls cut off is now part of the SCooTUS initiation....