Authoring a unanimous Supreme Court opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tore into the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for "drastically" straying from judicial norms when hearing a case involving a California immigration consultant. The Supreme Court sent the case back down the Ninth Circuit "for reconsideration ... bearing a fair resemblance to the case shaped by the parties." The Ninth Circuit ended up overturning Sineneng-Smith's conviction based on the idea that the law was overbroad under the First Amendment. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPGinsburg wrote that the Ninth Circuit's actions undermined the principle that parties and their counsels are responsible for presenting their own case. "There are no doubt circumstances in which a modest initiating role for a court is appropriate," Ginsburg wrote.

Source: Fox News May 07, 2020 16:41 UTC