SCOTUS Limits Deportation Ruling Appeals

Illegal immigrants have only limited grounds to appeal deportation orders to the federal courts, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision in which conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch led the dissent, joined by his three Democrat-appointed colleagues, the Washington Examiner reported on Monday.



The 5–4 decision makes it more difficult for those involved in deportation proceedings to get a federal court to review factual determinations that were made by an immigration court about the procedure.


The ruling, however, does not affect the ability of courts to weigh in on cases involving matters of law.



Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion that the wording Congress used in the law governing relief from deportation prohibits court “review of any judgment regarding the granting of relief. This plainly includes factual findings.”


The case before the justices involved Pankajkumar Patel, an illegal immigrant who has been in the U.S. …

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