The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 on April 22 that illegal immigrants who agree to self-deportation should be given extra time to appeal a deportation order if the departure deadline occurs on a weekend or a holiday.
The majority opinion in Monsalvo Velazquez v. Bondi, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, states that such a deadline extends to the following business day.
Gorsuch’s opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, as well as Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Dissenting were Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
The petitioner is Hugo Abisai Monsalvo Velazquez, a Mexican citizen who came to the United States illegally as a teenager in 2004….