Correct. The law states how the bureaucracy shall operate in this case, it didn’t, he can’t be punished just because the bureaucracy screwed up.
Douglas Adams described such well:
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”
THAT is what SCOTUS just disallowed.
If you allow lazy bureaucrats to do or not do their jobs as the whim takes them, it won’t just be immigrants that get shafted.
It will be farmers getting screwed over by the EPA or business owners getting reamed by BOLI or gun makers being jailed by ATF.
Due process is due process.
Well said.