Justice has spoken

APresident who wages war against “sanctuary cities” and increasingly uses Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to round up not only hardened criminals but law-abiding people is getting timely reminders that he doesn’t have nearly as much power as he thinks he has. They’re coming from federal courts — including the man he appointed last year to the highest bench in the land, Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch.

Tuesday, Gorsuch cast the deciding vote on rejecting a justification often used to justify deportations for immigrants convicted of felonies. Finding the federal law dictating deportation for those guilty of “a crime of violence” unacceptably vague, Gorsuch wrote: “A government of laws and not of men can never tolerate that arbitrary power.” The Trump doctrine this ain’t.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, federal appeals judges trashed demands from Attorney General Jeff Sessions for cities to hand over detained immigrants for deportation in order to be eligible for grants under a longstanding crime-fighting program.

Wrote Judge Ilana Rovner — an appointee of the first President Bush — “Congress . . . authorized the federal funds at issue and did not impose any immigration enforcement conditions.”

Clear as day.