9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Jun. 26, 2023
High court: Law against inducing illegal migration not too broad
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, dissented, accusing the government of essentially rewriting the statute in order to salvage it.
Reversing a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a federal law against inducing or encouraging illegal immigration is overly broad, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that such speech is not protected by the First Amendment.
“Properly interpreted, this provision forbids only the intentional solicitation or facilitation of certain unlawful acts,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett, an appointee of President Donald Trump, wrote for the 7-...
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