Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the Supreme Court's four liberal members in striking down as unconstitutionally vague a law imposing stiff criminal sentences for people convicted of certain crimes involving firearms
WASHINGTON - Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the U.S. Supreme Court's four liberal members on Monday in striking down as unconstitutionally vague a law imposing stiff criminal sentences for people convicted of certain crimes involving firearms.
Gorsuch, appointed by Trump in 2017, wrote that laws passed by Congress must give ordinary people notice of what kind of conduct can land them in prison.Justice Brett Kavanaugh, appointed by Trump in 2018, wrote a dissenting opinion expressing surprise at the court overturning a law in use for decades. The law's most recent version was passed by Congress in 1986."The court's decision today will make it harder to prosecute violent gun crimes in the future," Kavanaugh wrote.
It represented the third ruling in the court's current term in which Gorsuch has joined the court's liberals in a 5-4 decision. Monday's ruling was similar to another 5-4 ruling a year ago in which Gorsuch also joined the liberals in the majority. The court ruled that a law requiring the deportation of immigrants convicted of certain crimes of violence also was unconstitutionally vague.
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