Trump pick Gorsuch casts deciding Supreme Court vote against deporting immigrant
Source: The Hill
Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's first Supreme Court appointment, cast the deciding vote in a decision released Tuesday that sided with an immigrant fighting his deportation.
Gorsuch sided with court's four liberal justices in favor of the immigrant, James Garcia Dimaya, who the government sought to deport after his second first-degree burglary conviction in California.
The Justice Department argued his first-degree burglary conviction constituted a crime of violence, which is an aggravated felony that results in deportation under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
The court said Tuesday, however, that the laws definition of a crime of violence is too vague.
Read more: http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/383512-supreme-court-invalidates-law-requiring-the-deportation-of
Justice Neil Gorsuch. The subject of Trump's next Twitter meltdown?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Given we expect this guy to rule against everybody other than white male billionaires.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,748 posts)Sometimes they don't toe the party line. Even Scalia voted the right way once in awhile. It will be interesting to see whether Spanky sends out a rage-tweet accusing Gorsuch of being disloyal and ungrateful.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)during the case involving Veronica Brown. She is now, unfortunately, Veronica Capobianco, because Steven Breyer voted the wrong way. Justice Sotomayer rightly accused the majority of "a strained reading of the text" of the ICWA.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)are right twice a day.
There is always the glimmer of hope that having the honor of sitting on the Supreme Court changes a person and softens the harsh edge of partisanship. It has happened before.
bucolic_frolic
(43,196 posts)Keep saying it until the media believes it
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)It just happens that Gorsuch shares Scalia's views on defendants' rights. I don't think he's going to be a rogue liberal judge.
mobeau69
(11,146 posts)The cons ended up hating his guts. I remember the "Impeach Earl Warren" signs all over the South when I was a kid when our family would drive to FL.
Nothing like not running for re-election or a lifetime appointment to let your true colors flourish.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Gorsuch is still a douche, but I guess even lousy people can do the right thing once in a blue moon.
7962
(11,841 posts)The criminal stilll gets to go to jail, just not deported
NCjack
(10,279 posts)his error.
marked50
(1,366 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)Like almost everything Republicans do.
Thank you for looking into this, and sharing what's behind the news.