Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch agree: The government is being absurd
Even the polar opposites on the Supreme Court are teaming up to point out that the legal system just pulled a major facepalm.
So, a guy was told by the government to stay in the country on supervised release, and then he was arrested and prosecuted for exactly that. Yes, he was arrested for being found in the place where he was legally required to be. The government basically double-dipped on a prison sentence for the exact same continuous act.
Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch—who usually aren't seen agreeing on what color the sky is—stepped up to call this a total constitutional absurdity. They pointed out that under the current logic, the state could technically charge someone for every single day they spend in prison. It’s like being fined for traffic tickets while you’re already sitting in jail for the same crime.
It’s nice to see the highest court in the land notice that the legal system is occasionally just trolling people. The only thing worse than a broken system is a system that tries to pretend it isn't broken while charging you for the privilege of being stuck in it.
Source: UPI
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