Supreme Court Rules Asylum Applicants Bear Burden of Proof, Reversing Ninth Circuit

[Dauph]

https://mb.ntd.com/supreme-court-rules-asylum-applicants-bear-burden-of-proof-reversing-ninth-circuit_621369.html

Supreme Court Rules Asylum Applicants Bear Burden of Proof, Reversing Ninth Circuit

The Ninth Circuit’s rule has no proper place in a reviewing court’s analysis. … Nothing in the [Immigration and National Act] contemplates anything like the embellishment the Ninth Circuit has adopted.

 

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And interestingly, it's 9-0, so even Kagan, Sotomayor, and the other liberals know the 9th is wackadoodle. (Although they did not use that particular terminology in the decision.)