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Gorsuch is dead wrong on immigration
Conservative Review ^ | April 18, 2018 | Daniel Horowitz

Posted on 04/18/2018 4:09:15 PM PDT by conservative98

The “but Gorsuch…” rallying cry for voting GOP is starting to run out of gas as the judiciary gets worse and worse and even “our” appointees find some convoluted reason to go along with the left-wing judicial supremacists who make a mockery of the will of the people.

In case you thought courts granting new rights to criminal aliens was a pastime only of the left-wing judges on the Ninth Circuit, think again. Yesterday, Neil Gorsuch joined with the four most extreme-left justices to rule that an entire statute of Congress mandating deportation for criminal aliens convicted of a crime of violence is “unconstitutionally vague.” While many conservative commentators defending and even championing his opinion are focusing on the regulatory aspect of Gorsuch’s rationale as it applies to general criminal law, they fail to observe that this is truly unprecedented and divorced from our entire history of immigration jurisprudence on deportations.

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KEYWORDS: gorsuch; immigration; trump
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To: rollo tomasi
No, the "conservative"/originalism side concerning immigration is defaulting to the plenary power doctrine."Due process does not invest any alien with a right to enter the United States, nor confer on those admitted the right to remain against the national will." Justice Robert H. Jackson as quoted by Justice Scalia in a 1994 case.

You are correct in that Scalia wrote this, but you have take the quote out of context to support your agenda, which makes you no better than CNN. And if we decide to give due process to aliens, then we ought to do so in a way that complies with the 5th Amendment.

41 posted on 04/18/2018 6:27:02 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
How is it out of context? Read his full dissent of Zadvydas v. Davis. It's pretty short and sweet.

"We are offered no justification why an alien under a valid and final order of removal–which has totally extinguished whatever right to presence in this country he possessed–has any greater due process right to be released into the country than an alien at the border seeking entry." Part of Scalia's context.
42 posted on 04/18/2018 6:33:41 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Scalia’s point has always been Congress and the Executive have the authority and due process does not necessarily protect immigrants *targeted* for deportation or jail. He was hands off in terms of immigration policies. If they can’t deport, jail, if they can deport, deport.


43 posted on 04/18/2018 6:40:08 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: conservative98

I thought so too until I read Scalia voted the same way awhile back when he was alive.


44 posted on 04/18/2018 6:40:25 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: SoConPubbie

You saying this, makes me comfortable with his decision.


45 posted on 04/18/2018 6:43:54 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: rollo tomasi

To quote Mark Levin: “Listen and I will teach you something.”

Zadvydas v. Davis concerns procedural due process — a person’s rights once they are lawfully within the judicial system. Sessions v. Dimaya (the “Gorsuch case” at issue) concerns substantive due process — whether the person should be within the judicial system in the first place. The difference is significant.


46 posted on 04/18/2018 6:45:55 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
Wrong guy to quote since even Levin stated Gorsuch screwed the pooch in his opinion.

The point was what would Scalia rule. The tell was his promotion of plenary power aided by the Law of Nations Clause concerning the legislative and Executive positions concerning immigration. Again, he did not believe in judicial limits concerning immigration laws. He most likely would of ruled with Thomas and the rest based on his enumerated positions on immigration which were widely known.

I would think aggravated felony carrying a sentence of more than one year, plus case law stating that first degree burglary constituted a violent act under section 16(b) would be cause for deportation.
47 posted on 04/18/2018 7:06:23 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: conservative98

Wonder if he has been compromised in some way...


48 posted on 04/18/2018 7:08:50 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: napscoordinator

I also thought so too until I heard the Mark Levin show tonight. Scalia was voting on a criminal law, and Gorsuch voted on immigration and totally messed it up. People are not being honest on the comparison. I’ll see if there is audio later.


49 posted on 04/18/2018 7:09:52 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Colo9250

Michael Savage predicted Gorsuck was going to be a disappointment and he was right , yet again .


50 posted on 04/18/2018 7:10:13 PM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: conservative98
I also thought so too until I heard the Mark Levin show tonight. Scalia was voting on a criminal law, and Gorsuch voted on immigration and totally messed it up. People are not being honest on the comparison. I’ll see if there is audio later.

The requirement for laws to not be vague applies to all areas of law. Immigration law does not get an exception just because it is a political football today.

In this case, the question is: is burglary a "violent crime"? As it happened, no person was present at the time of the crime. Clearly, different judges can reasonably differ in their answers as to whether this is "violent"... thus the law is unnecessary vague. It has NOTHING to do with Trump, Left vs Right, or any other political nonsense. Congress screwed up in the wording of the law. Congress needs to fix it. Period.

51 posted on 04/18/2018 7:21:19 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

The other 4 justices found the law specific enough. Congress is insane. They don’t fix anything. The other I’ll get the Levin audio later to show what a screwup Gorsuch did.


52 posted on 04/18/2018 7:38:34 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Blue House Sue
Gorsuch will be the swing vote on the Court for the next 20 years.

Hopefully not. There's a good chance Bader-Ginsberg and Breyer will be gone before Trump is, and we can get a 7-2 majority.

53 posted on 04/18/2018 8:12:06 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: conservative98

Thank you. So much information out there and a lot of it is muck. Makes me so mad. However, having you set the story straight is so helpful.


54 posted on 04/18/2018 8:14:29 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: conservative98
Mark Levin Show Podcast Wednesday - April 18, 2018 | Levin Show 04/18/2018 [Youtube 1:51:47]
55 posted on 04/18/2018 8:34:23 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
It is not necessary for illegal aliens to be convicted of other crimes, violent or not, for them to be removed.

^^THIS^^

The only crime that needs a specific definition here is the crime of being inside the borders of the United States of America without citizenship or permission.

56 posted on 04/19/2018 1:11:50 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: ExGeeEye
And, permission can and should be revoked upon conviction of any crime, vaguely violent or not.
57 posted on 04/19/2018 1:13:15 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: DoodleBob
>> I suspect these attacks against Gorsuch are part of a coordinated NeverTrump attack to undermine one of Trump’s major wins. <<

Trump blasts immigration ruling made by SCOTUS pick Neil Gorsuch

Wow, even President Trump is on the NeverTrump backwagon now! Shame on President Trump for smearing President Trump by question Gorsuch's "conservative" decision!

58 posted on 04/19/2018 1:40:50 AM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: DoodleBob
>> I suspect these attacks against Gorsuch are part of a coordinated NeverTrump attack to undermine one of Trump’s major wins. <<

Trump blasts immigration ruling made by SCOTUS pick Neil Gorsuch

Wow, even President Trump is on the NeverTrump backwagon now! Shame on President Trump for smearing President Trump by questioning Gorsuch's "conservative" decision!

59 posted on 04/19/2018 1:42:17 AM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: BillyBoy

It’s 5-D chess, don’t you know?


60 posted on 04/19/2018 1:45:29 AM PDT by gogeo (excellent!)
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