Posted on 12/05/2006 4:24:49 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
LPotheads and their even more pompous enablers.
Such as myself, you mean.
If the bong fits...
Reading comprehension is vital. I do not smoke pot, as I have previously stated.
You keep saying that, but your actions work against your statements...
...dooooode.
In other words, you've already resorted to calling me a liar in a roundabout way.
I don't think you're smart enough to be a liar.
You're just pompous.
Oh, and a drama queen, now.
And completely humorless.
Which is what I would expect from the LPotheads.
And their enablers.
Wow, I've never met a fWO(s)D cheerleader quite as bitter as you. It's not surprising, however. If I were a cheerleader of a drug war that was such a complete and miserable failure, I suppose I would be bitter, too.
There's a difference between a legal resident and a citizen.
My wife is a legal resident but not a citizen.
And of course the pomposity requires you to label your opposition (who ends up being everybody, really). I'm just happy to see the LPers fight with the border bots. It's like watching midgets wrestle. Good fun.
It was simply an interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Congress can change it if it is unhappy with the result.
And it was a reasonable interpretation, as shown by the 8-1 vote (Roberts, Scalia and Alito all in the majority).
To put this in context: a legal alien convicted of any crime may be deported, but the Immigration authorities generally have discretion to deport or not, unless the crime is an "aggravated felony," in which case they must deport, no exceptions. This case involved small-scale drug possession which would have been a misdemeanor (not a felony at all, much less an "aggravated" one) if prosecuted in federal court. But because the defendant was prosecuted in state court in a state which treated all drug possession as a felony, the Justice Department argued that he was guilty of an "aggravated felony"-- a result which would have meant that aliens committing the same crime would sometimes be subject to mandatory deportation and sometimes not, depending on which court they got prosecuted in.
And note that this alien doesn't get to stay in the U.S. based on this ruling; he only gets the right to ask the Immigration officials to let him stay. They can still say no.
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