Guess what? The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that there is nothing wrong with statutory rape -- and so the US cannot deport adults who have sex with underage partners!

Over the years, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has earned itself a reputation as the legal bastion of San Francisco looniness, and a recent decision will do nothing to change that.

On Tuesday, the court decided that Alberto Quintero-Salazar - a Mexican national and legal resident of the U.S. - could not be deported on the basis of a sex crime he committed in 1998, namely illegal intercourse between an adult over 21 and a youth under 16. According to the court, adults taking sexual advantage of a minor (so long as they have the "consent" that minors are legally unable to provide) are not guilty of a crime of "moral turpitude," which is needed to subject legal U.S. residents to deportation.

The reasoning of this case goes like this -- the age of consent differs in different states, and the act would not be illegal if the couple were married. Therefore it is only a crime because California made it illegal.

I suppose we could make that argument about most other crimes, too.

So the child-raping immigrant gets to stay in America -- even though a plain reading of the law says he should be deported immediately.

Anyone want to argue about the importance of doing something about the out-of-control Ninth Circuit?

Anyone want to ask why this decision was ignored by the media?

Will someone start asking the Democrat s running for President what they think of this decision and these judges? Not to mention what they will do to stop such idiocy.

H/T Stop the ACLU, Random-American

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