Posted on 04/26/2017 1:12:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts took issue on Wednesday with the Trump administration's stance in an immigration case, saying it could make it too easy for the government to strip people of citizenship for lying about minor infractions.
Roberts and other Supreme Court justices indicated support for a deported ethnic Serb immigrant named Divna Maslenjak over her bid to regain her U.S. citizenship after it was stripped because she falsely stated her husband had not served in the Bosnian Serb army in the 1990s after Yugoslavia's collapse.
Roberts seemed particularly concerned that the government was asserting it could revoke citizenship through criminal prosecution for trivial lies or omissions.
Maslenjak entered the United States with her husband and two children in 2000, granted refugee status over a claimed fear of ethnic persecution in Bosnia at the hands of Muslims. They settled in Ohio. She became a U.S. citizen in 2007. At issue is her concealment of her husband Ratko's service in a Bosnian Serb Army brigade that participated in the notorious 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
Maslenjak's citizenship was revoked. She and her husband were deported to Serbia last October.
Roberts described the administration's interpretation as inviting "prosecutorial abuse" because the government could likely find a reason for stripping citizenship from most naturalized citizens.
"That to me is troublesome to give that extraordinary power, which, essentially, is unlimited power, at least in most cases, to the government," Roberts added.
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No, not joking. He is showing us the inside of his coat which he turned way back on obamacare. When I read that he was taking Dilantin I asked why on earth he was appointed to anything that would have outside pressures. One characteristic of long term Dilantin is evaporation of will power. I was on it for 13 years. Since then I have compared notes with others and observed others. Dilantin kills will power. It becomes very difficult to deny someone something. Pressure to make an absurd ruling will result in an absurd ruling.
But whatever is being discussed now it Trump’s Fault. He probably is to blame for the War Between the States.
This is so stupid... the Serbs are on Russian side... and now they blame Trump for that?,
Omer Roberts Simpson? The Forest Gump jokes we put in power, especially stupid Rinos.
“Makes you wonder if he had to lie - but just ‘trivially’ - when adopting his kids.”
I’m sure that’s a possibility... I believe the man was receiving personal pressure from something to caused him to make that facacta ruling on ObamaCare.
He was pressured for his obamacaare decision. He cannot resist pressure. He is on Dilantin. Once he did that, he is on the Progressives’ card and can’t get off it. He needs to be impeached and removed from the Court, because of the Dilantin but with his convoluted and absurd obamacare ruling as the charge.
WOW. Wonder what pictures “they” (the Deep State) have of Justice Roberts? Possibly with some little trafficked boys???
Since the CIA-Mossad run child-sex trafficking rings (Ted Gunderson/Franklin Cover-Up), since way before the little boys were supplied to J.E. Hoover, it brings one to question the sanity of Justice Roberts.
Why would he want any toleration be given to any person who lies to any legal authority? It is not a little white lie. Wow-—our “Justice” System-—one which promotes sodomy and baby-killing for years now, wants to eliminate Truth for Lies.
Hmmmmmm. Why isn’t he impeached for his actions on the Marxist obama”care” system which is antithetical to the Constitution? He was and is a BRIBED judge. You can tell by his actions.
Someone is still pulling his strings,huh, Roberts? Better come clean to the skeletons in your closet or step down, so you can’t be part of the Deep State which is determined to destroy our Rule of Law-—for Rule of Lies/vice/sodomy/baby-killing, etc.
Some “Justice” system we have now—huh, Roberts!!!!!! As Cicero knew 2000 years ago, when you allow Just Law to promote vice, it is no longer “just” law and it will collapse civilization . It is Rule by evil irrational Man, only-—you, Roberts. You are removing Rule of Law (Higher Law/God’s Laws only) which is so unconstitutional.
I'm sure he is.
Roberts prefers it when unlimited power is only available to the SCOTUS.
Deport Roberts
FBI must have photos of him with ...
So Roberts sez it’s Ok to lie to the government and you can keep your citizenship.
But Roberts sez that if you don’t bake a gay wedding cake then you have the right to have your livelihood taken from you.
The Bush gift that keeps on giving.......
Or he's going on record now so he can later recuse himself from immigration related cases, ensuring a deadlocked SCOTUS and letting lower court leftist rulings stand.
Somebody has their fact wrong and this is not even a case being heard by the court, let alone a Trump case.
I don’t know whether her husband was involved in genocide or ethnic cleansing - BUT THEN NEITHER DOES THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE - because SHE LIED!
See, ya’
Oldplayer
And the 0bama administration only cared because the victims were muzzies. Had the religious shoe been on the other foot, there’s no way this couple would have been deported by the muzzie-loving 0bama.
Not speaking to any bigger picture vis a vis the 8000 deaths, just that everything the previous administration did was based upon favoring the muzzie side of things.
Not likely, he won’t even deport the illegal alien’s children.
That power bothers him. Obamacare? Not a bit. The homo.
CJ Roberts needs to read up on the Nazis who fled to America under assumed names after the war. Many were war criminals who literally murdered thousands................
Unlimited power? That just means that he has an issue with federal law. But of course that’s nothing new, with him. For someone as intelligent as you would expect a SC justice to be, he certainly doesn’t seem to understand that Congress legislates, his only role is to interpret according to the plain meaning.
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