Posted on 04/26/2017 1:12:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts took issue on Wednesday with the Trump administration's stance in an immigration case, saying it could make it too easy for the government to strip people of citizenship for lying about minor infractions.
Roberts and other Supreme Court justices indicated support for a deported ethnic Serb immigrant named Divna Maslenjak over her bid to regain her U.S. citizenship after it was stripped because she falsely stated her husband had not served in the Bosnian Serb army in the 1990s after Yugoslavia's collapse.
Roberts seemed particularly concerned that the government was asserting it could revoke citizenship through criminal prosecution for trivial lies or omissions.
Maslenjak entered the United States with her husband and two children in 2000, granted refugee status over a claimed fear of ethnic persecution in Bosnia at the hands of Muslims. They settled in Ohio. She became a U.S. citizen in 2007. At issue is her concealment of her husband Ratko's service in a Bosnian Serb Army brigade that participated in the notorious 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
Maslenjak's citizenship was revoked. She and her husband were deported to Serbia last October.
Roberts described the administration's interpretation as inviting "prosecutorial abuse" because the government could likely find a reason for stripping citizenship from most naturalized citizens.
"That to me is troublesome to give that extraordinary power, which, essentially, is unlimited power, at least in most cases, to the government," Roberts added.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
If she was deported last October, wouldn’t that have been done by the Obama administration?
“That to me is troublesome to give that extraordinary power, which, essentially, is unlimited power, at least in most cases, to the government,” Roberts added....
He’s joking right?
FAKE NEWS! Trump was NOT President last October. Unbelievable.
Guess the libs have told him to stop pretending to be a conservative.
Last I checked, the Obama Admin was in charge back then, so WTF does this case have to do with the Trump Admin?
“”””Maslenjak’s citizenship was revoked. She and her husband were deported to Serbia last October. “”””
Last October, Trump was President then?
PFL
By Roberts’ logic a Muslim who came here and lied about being a member of ISIS could not be deported.
TRUMP WAS NOT PRESIDENT LAST OCTOBER FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!!!
Fake news..true?/false?
Whatever the truth, John Roberts words could have possibly tumbled from his mouth. He sold US out once, in order TPTB could continue to hold the axe over our heads. He’d not think twice about doing it again. The entire lot = dirty, rotten criminals.
More Fake news. They are blaming Trump on this.
Hey Reuters, you lying bastards and enemies of the Republic, Trump wasn’t President in October.
Maybe Roberts is signalling how he’ll vote on any refugee/immigration cases DJT sends him.
“Last October, Trump was President then?”
No, but the arguments layed out in the brief and presented today by the Assistant Solicitor General, on behalf of the US, where probably written after DJT was in office.
If that is the government's position then the government is a ass. This argument cuts against a fundamental requirement of the exercise of administrative discretion - that it be "reasonable," e.g. that it be based upon a valid stated reason. That a representation be "material" is an important filter in any decision-making.
Well, he is a friend of W, a one world order disciple.
This is NOT a trivial thing.
this is from an oral argument so it is trumps admin now arguing case.
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