Overturning a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled this morning that a previously deported illegal alien is not excused on appeal from the legal requirement of demonstrating he previously exhausted all administrative remedies and was improperly deprived of judicial review. The high court’s opinion in the case, United States v. Palomar-Santiago, court file 20-437, was written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Refugio Palomar-Santiago, a Mexican national, was granted permanent resident status in 1990. He lost that status in 1991 following a driving under the influence (DUI) conviction in California state court, which, at the time, was deemed a crime of violence and therefore an aggravated felony under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that warranted deportation. He was deported in 1998. Before that, Congress enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 which limited collateral attacks –that is, challenges to previous court rulings in unrelated cases— …