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Opposing Supreme Court justices join forces to call out 'absurdity’
What happened
AlterNet reports that Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch criticized the government’s prosecution of Jesús Herrera-Salazar, a Mexican national convicted twice under the federal illegal-reentry law. Sotomayor called the result a “constitutional absurdity,” warning that the appellate court’s reasoning could permit repeated, potentially limitless prosecutions for being “found in” the United States.
Herrera-Salazar was found in Texas in 2020, imprisoned, and then placed under supervision that required him to remain in the United States. After authorities found him in Oklahoma…
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