The Supreme Court rejected the federal government’s effort to move forward with the deportation of a failed refugee claimant who argued he shouldn’t be removed from the United States because official paperwork was incomplete. The Trump administration, in office when the case was argued Nov. 9, 2020, favored deportation in this instance. Up to 4,000 immigrants every year are reportedly eligible to receive what the government calls “cancellation of removal” to avoid splitting up families. The government’s loss may make it more difficult to deport certain categories of illegal aliens. The 6-3 vote in the case, Niz-Chavez v. Barr, court file 19-863, evenly divided the 6-member conservative bloc on the court. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the court’s opinion, in which conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett, joined, along with liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a dissenting opinion that was joined …