tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283258643623412113.post1982608704006512265..comments2024-03-29T05:15:04.850-04:00Comments on 90 Miles From Tyranny : Gorsuch Delivers Surprise Blow to Trump on ImmigrationMike Mileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729229224106563792noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283258643623412113.post-60478869497425037332018-04-18T20:44:40.049-04:002018-04-18T20:44:40.049-04:00would be nice if someday the congress would avoid ...would be nice if someday the congress would avoid mealy mouthing the laws they pass. too many lawyers in the world. lawyers should not be allowed anywhere near congress so that congress would write laws plainly and understandably for the common citizen to understand them. justice gorsuch did his duty properly. no complaints here. if congress means to say something then it should say it plainly. to have a judge "interpret" a law simply upsets me because it means the congress failed to write the law clearly and succinctly and to the point. judges interpreting a law is legislating from the bench and that is not his/her job IMHO. you have laws for specific reasons to expand on constitutional rights and those laws should allow no grey areas. capt fasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14374459887067010071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283258643623412113.post-71272131714578762732018-04-18T10:28:47.440-04:002018-04-18T10:28:47.440-04:00You want a guy who follows the Constitution, you g...You want a guy who follows the Constitution, you gotta expect a few of these.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283258643623412113.post-44328360171704541472018-04-18T09:55:46.593-04:002018-04-18T09:55:46.593-04:00As I read the opinion, it is consistent with what ...As I read the opinion, it is consistent with what Justice Scalia would have supported. Note that the crimes were burglaries, not robberies. Justice Gorsuch merely agreed that burglaries are not necessarily "violent crimes", and that if Congress intended to include them, they should have been properly specific.<br /><br />Robberies are, by their definition, violent crimes. Burglary definition as such - or not - is subject to the whim of the charging persecutor.matismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12935009854433843094noreply@blogger.com