TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 27, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that a lawful permanent resident twice convicted on drug possession charges should be deported, according to U.S. News & World Report. The decision, which split the court 5-4 along ideological lines, came in the case of a green card holder who was present at a gun shooting in 1996 and convicted of drug possession in 2007 and 2008. Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted that a “criminal record of this kind” made the resident ineligible to stay in the country.