{"id":57367,"date":"2018-04-17T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=57367"},"modified":"2018-04-17T10:16:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:16:40","slug":"supreme-court-affirms-ninth-circuits-decision-violent-felony-language-in-immigration-law-is-unconstitutionally-vague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=57367","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Affirms Ninth Circuit&#8217;s Decision Violent Felony Language in Immigration Law is Unconstitutionally Vague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Supreme Court Affirms Ninth Circuit&#8217;s Decision Violent Felony Language in Immigration Law is Unconstitutionally Vague.  The case is Sessions v. Dimaya (15-1498)  &#8220;The Ninth Circuit\u2019s judgment\u2014that 18 U. S. C. \u00a716(b), which defines violent felony for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act\u2019s removal provisions, is unconstitutionally vague\u2014is affirmed.&#8221;  It was a 5-4 decision and the full opinion is below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/15-1498_1b8e.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/supremedecisi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"969\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/supremedecisi.jpg 594w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/supremedecisi-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/supremedecisi-570x930.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/supremedecisi-150x245.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/supremedecisi-307x500.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Supreme Court Affirms Ninth Circuit&#8217;s Decision Violent Felony Language in Immigration Law is Unconstitutionally Vague. The case is Sessions v. Dimaya (15-1498) &#8220;The Ninth Circuit\u2019s judgment\u2014that 18 U. S. C. \u00a716(b), which defines violent felony for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act\u2019s removal provisions, is unconstitutionally vague\u2014is affirmed.&#8221; It was a 5-4 decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/supremedecisi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}