Unanimous Supreme Court rebukes 9th Circuit on immigration law

A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that had overturned the conviction of a woman accused of profiting from illegal immigration.

What’s more, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rebuked the historically liberal 9th Circuit, writing in the court’s opinion that the 9th Circuit had “departed … drastically” from legal precedent in its ruling last year.

A federal court in California convicted a woman of several felonies for profiting from filing illegal immigration documents with the U.S. Department of...