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Maslenjak's citizenship was revoked.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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I don't seem to recall him even commenting on Mrs. Bill Clinton's lies about thousands of Secret and Top Secret emails, which definitely were not trivial.
Yes, but this is Reuters who never misses a chance to hate Trump.
Reuters is run by old, doddering English fascists and has no credibility
Actually, the article is fair.
The deportation was under Obama but the argument to which Roberts was referring was made by the Trump administration.
Maybe he’s worried about his adopted kids losing citizenship over lies he told to adopt them.
“Maybe hes worried about his adopted kids losing citizenship over lies he told to adopt them.”
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Do you know that for a fact?
(I know nothing about this so it’s a serious question.)
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With the millions who have been slaughtered by rag-head moslem scum over the centuries, it is good that a small amount of vengeance/payback has been accomplished...
Has this guy gone full Souter yet? Ann Coulter sure had this guy pegged.
I don’t know anything for a fact about Roberts. But that story has been around for a while. He supposedly did a little trickeration when adopting, and it was speculated that it may have been what Obama used against him. Or he could just have some other secret that the Deep State found out about. What I would bet a lot of money on is that he was blackmailed into changing his vote.
Justice Roberts Bump!
I disagree with you that the article is fair.
It states, but tries to hide the fact, that the deportation occurred during the Obama administration, and certainly doesn’t mention him by name. It’s not until the 10th paragraph that it stated that, “Maslenjak’s citizenship was revoked. She and her husband were deported to Serbia last October.” It’s left to the reader to realize the date of the article and the date mentioned means that this happened during the Obama administration.
If a deportation occurred late in a Republican administration’s term, the thrust of the story would be completely different.
Like many SCOTUS stories this one was about the arguments made in the court, not the underlying matter.
I'm sorry the author didn't highlight the issue you wanted him to but this approach is normal for court stories.
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