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2020-05-12 Home Front: WoT
Encouraging Illegal Aliens To Remain In The US Is A Crime, Supreme Court Rules
[DAILYCALLER] The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal statute that forbids encouraging illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. unlawfully in a decision Thursday.

The Supreme Court justices voided an earlier decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which had ruled that a federal anti-harboring statute was unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment by restricting free speech. The ruling by the nation’s highest court Thursday upholds the law.

The Supreme Court not only vacated the appeals court’s decision, but also criticized the judges for "drastically" straying from judicial norms.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal stalwart of the bench, wrote the high court’s opinion.

"[T]he appeals panel departed so drastically from the principle of party presentation as to constitute an abuse of discretion," Ginsburg wrote, and later stated that "a court is not hidebound by the precise arguments of counsel, but the Ninth Circuit’s radical transformation of this case goes well beyond the pale."
Posted by Fred 2020-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Now, that's unexpected?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-12 00:49||   2020-05-12 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 RBG must have been sleeping.
Posted by gorb 2020-05-12 00:52||   2020-05-12 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 No, they rule the 9th violated procedural grounds and have sent it back for 'reconsideration'. Maybe enough of it has been flipped that the 9th will now reaffirm Congress's Constitutional authority and law regarding immigration.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-12 02:03||   2020-05-12 02:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Unanimous? Wow. You sure this isn't from the Bee
Posted by Clem 2020-05-12 05:05||   2020-05-12 05:05|| Front Page Top

#5 You can tell the 9th Circus was mostly appointed by Democrats, they feel no shame
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-12 06:56||   2020-05-12 06:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Has interesting implications for "sanctuary" cities/counties/states
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-12 08:10||   2020-05-12 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 SUSANNAH LUTHI, 12/27/2019 A bastion of liberalism in the federal judiciary is slowly turning rightward, threatening Democratic court challenges on everything from abortion to who gets a green card. The Senate confirmation of Lawrence VanDyke and Patrick Bumatay to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month brought to nine the number of appointments President Donald Trump has made to the 29-member bench that serves as the last stop for nearly all legal complaints lodged in nine Western states. Democratic-appointed judges now hold a three-seat majority, compared with 11 at the start of Trump's presidency.
Posted by b 2020-05-12 08:43||   2020-05-12 08:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Hope. Change.

Some of our elites' decisions are so unbelievably foolish and destructive that even reliable lefties such as Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor are willing to call BS on them. Tolerance of illegal immigration is one such policy.

Let's hope a similar reaction happens wrt our mind-bogglingly asinine policy of tying our economy tightly to China's.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-12 08:52||   2020-05-12 08:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Has interesting implications for "sanctuary" cities/counties/states

I'll believe it when Newsom goes to jail.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-12 10:53||   2020-05-12 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 How bout this: Every American taxpayer has standing to sue on the grounds illegal gimmiegrants are stealing from us and anyone who sides with them is a conspiracy to commit theft target?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 12:04||   2020-05-12 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 so then , sanctuary cities and other entities are now illegal
Posted by 746 2020-05-12 12:15||   2020-05-12 12:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Giant game of badminton with the people's rights. SCOTUS just sent lower courts a message: Try again.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 12:25||   2020-05-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Whilst the UK police investigate people who disagree with the lockdown they let foreign child molesters stay in the UK
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-12 13:42||   2020-05-12 13:42|| Front Page Top

#14 This would apply to Omar voters.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-12 21:29||   2020-05-12 21:29|| Front Page Top

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