***CORRECTION: The title of the story and email indicated that Justice Gorsuch sided with ‘Illegals’ when it should have stated ‘Liberals’. We apologize for the mistake. The decision is still a blow to immigration enforcement efforts. We, here at TTN, apologize for the mistake.***
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).
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“Today’s vague laws may not be as invidious, but they can invite the exercise of arbitrary power all the same — by leaving the people in the dark about what the law demands and allowing prosecutors and courts to make it up. The law before us today is such a law.”
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