A liberal and conservative Supreme Court justice joined forces on Tuesday to condemn what they said were “serious constitutional problems” in the government’s prosecution of a Mexican national for illegally reentering the country.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the immigrant faced a “Hobson’s choice” after he was barred from returning to Mexico and ordered to remain in Oklahoma, where he was “found in” and arrested.
The two justices from opposite sides of the high court’s ideological spectrum have teamed up once again to call out what they see as an “absurd” application of federal law.
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch teamed up on Tuesday to criticize the “constitutional absurdity” of the prosecution of Jesus Herrera-Salazar, saying the Mexican national’s two arrests raise questions about double jeopardy.
