Posted on 04/23/2020 4:26:28 PM PDT by bitt
The Supreme Court is making it harder for noncitizens who are authorized to live permanently in the United States to argue they should be allowed to stay in the country if they've committed crimes.
The decision Thursday split the court 5-4 along ideological lines.
The decision came in the case of Andre Barton, a Jamaican national and green card holder. In 1996, when he was a teenager, he was present when a friend fired a gun at the home of Barton's ex-girlfriend in Georgia. And in 2007 and 2008, he was convicted of drug possession in the state. His crimes made him eligible to be deported, and the government sought to remove him from the country in 2016. Barton argued he should be eligible to stay.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted in his opinion for the court's conservatives that it was important that Barton's 1996 crime took place in the first seven years he was admitted to the country. Kavanaugh wrote that “when a lawful permanent resident has amassed a criminal record of this kind,” immigration law makes them ineligible to ask to be allowed to stay in the country.
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Can anyone imagine the third world s***hole we would be if Hillary had won in 2016 and had appointed the last two justices?
We’d be dealing with an American Ebola outbreak.
That statement should always have an * with it that explains "unless convicted of a crime".
“Kavanaugh wrote that “when a lawful permanent resident has amassed a criminal record of this kind,” immigration law makes them ineligible to ask to be allowed to stay in the country.”
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Kavanaugh was worth the effort to get him to the position. Obviously he remembered the leftards / MSM making his wife cry during the proceedings.
The prick Democrats really thought this ahole should be eligible to stay?
The Eleventh Circuit put the smackdown on this tool Barton, then the Supremes finished him off.
One of the main reasons there was so much crying in the Javits Center one night in 2016.
The Obama admin tried to have him removed?
well slap me silly and call me goofy...
“In 1996, when he was a teenager, he was present when a friend fired a gun at the home of Barton’s ex-girlfriend in Georgia. And in 2007 and 2008, he was convicted of drug possession in the state.”
Let me guess - he was a teenager during all of those crimes, per CNN.
If you think the libs are angry now, just wait. If Trump wins reelection and another lib justice kicks it then you haven’t seen nothing yet.
#popcorn
If you think the libs are angry now, just wait. If Trump wins reelection and another lib justice kicks it then you haven’t seen nothing yet.
#popcorn
Welcome to FR.
Where we say to these abusive, snowflake, basement dwelling, angry libs......
BRING IT!!
BTTT!
It would be funny if that old woman on the court kicked it, and Trump appointed another con like NOW right before the election so the rats would scream no fair! no confirmations in an election year and old Cocaine Mitch would go, that was then and this is now.
Never happen.
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