Posted on 04/17/2018 10:09:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Justice Neil Gorsuch provided the decisive vote Tuesday in a Supreme Court ruling striking down a key provision that made it easier to deport immigrants convicted of violent crimes, in a blow to the Trump administration.
President Trump's Supreme Court pick has largely sided with the conservative members of the bench since his appointment, but sided with the liberal wing on Tuesday.
The court said the part of the law in question is too vague to be enforced.
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My question is, what blackmail does the Left have on Gorsuch? I’m convinced they completely control the Supreme Court now through blackmail. The only ones they can’t control that way were/are Scalia (dead, probably murdered by the Left) and Thomas (marginalized by the media).
we’ll find out really in June where Gorsuch leans when the the real war comes up: the decision on unions and mandatory payments.
This guy should be sequestered at Fort Knox before the Deep State gets to him ala Roberts and Scalia.
“Violent crimes are violations of criminal law that involve the intentional use of violence by one person against another. Social scientists do not agree on a single or unified definition of violence, however.
Criminologists tend to favor narrow definitions of violence, focusing on physical harm or threats. Many, but not all, criminologists accept the definition provided by an influential National Research Council study, which defined violence as “behaviors by individuals that intentionally threaten, attempt, or inflict physical harm on others” (Reiss and Roth 1993, p. 2; see General Overviews). This definition includes a diverse assortment of behaviors, including homicide, assault, robbery (theft accompanied by force or threat), rape, torture, capital punishment, and boxing. But it excludes many acts that are encompassed by other, equally reasonable definitions.
How one chooses to define violence prefigures the types of behavior that are counted as violence, the levels of violence observed across place and time, the theories that make sense of violent behavior, and the social response to violence.”
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/obo-9780195396607-0001.xml
We don’t want vague laws that can be interpreted to mean anything by anybody.
We have too much of that already.
Here in PA I can be cited for driving with an “excessive” amount of snow on my car. How much is “excessive”? The law doesn’t say. If the borough needs revenue it might be three flakes.
If the law is vague how come only the liberals plus Gorsuch saw that and four conservative Justices didn’t?
> If the law is vague how come only the liberals plus Gorsuch saw that and four conservative Justices didn’t? <
Great question.
Why not Any Crime - Throwing a cig butt on the ground and out you go. I dislike cleaning up my yard from others discarded cig butts. Family does not smoke.
Did Gorsuch at least get a fat briefcase full of cash to take to Switzerland?
NOT AGAIN!!!???
It must be the miasmal air inside the beltway.
Or is it the money or the need to fit in?
You could always read through the decision to find out what their reasoning is. Or you could let the press tell you. I'm sure noone in the press has any agendas, on either side.
Agree.
when he took the side of the 4 liberals then I would like to know why, and it is not too vague.
Is this another judge again who will turn like so many republican Presidents have placed?
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Every day there is bad news for our side. I am not exaggerating.
Probably Gorsuch will be a mildly moderate bland sort of somewhat -in- a -way -toward -the -right, most of the time-guy, like Jeb Bush genetically merged with Lindsay Graham. Is that the best we can do?
Just don’t let him take guest interview spots on Ellen or Jimmy Kimmel or we’re finished. “Which camera shows my best profile?” “They’re both handsome, Judge Gorsuch.”
That some POS illegal immigrant gets to stay here is no consideration?
READ Grosuch decision
Vagueness in writing laws by Legislatures is one of the way the Activist Judiciary and radical Leftist bureaucrats have squeezed so much of their wacko Leftist agenda into law.
This is sound Conservative principal. It just happens to be applied against a hot button issue Conservatives favor.
Bad law is bad law even if we happen to agree with what it is trying to accomplish.
The law needs to be re-written.
congress will not change the law congress is pro criminal immigrants chosing to not protect US citizens
had to believe no definition of violent crime. Many states list the crime by their state codes. Or corrections when they grant early releases. Recently cal listed violent crimes so Jerry brown could say we are releasing only nonviolent offenders early. Of course he lied.
"The court said the part of the law in question was too vague to be enforced."
Hardly a "repudiation" of Trump's immigration policies but in fact an invitation for Congress to try again with a better written set of laws that can stand the test of time and be properly enforced.
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