We agree that it’s unconstitutional, but unfortunately the court’s don’t agree (YET).
I hope you have good representation.

Let’s just hope Gorsuch and the other Justices’ will do “the right thing” and call it for what it is….it’s a constitutional violation. It’s an ex post facto violation. That is what SORNA applied to those who’s sentence was completed is.

Very few politicians, conservative and liberal alike, have voted against SO laws.

I also don’t think that having Gorsuch weigh in would be a bad thing. At least I hope.

That is my thinking. I believe he feels strongly about maintaining the integrity of the Constitution and its principles.

Conservatives are typically the ones pushing SOR laws. Democrats in state legislatures all over the U.S., including the New York State Senate, Colorado State Senate and Washington State Senate, to name a few. That being said, Gorsuch is skepticial of executive branch power that extends ‘third-rail’ criminal-justice issues such as sex crimes.

In a CNN’s write-up of Gorsuch’s key rulings:

In this [United States v. Nichols], in a dissent from the full 10th Circuit’s refusal to rehear a three-judge ruling with which he disagreed, Gorsuch strongly objected to how much regulatory power a federal statute — the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) — gave to the Justice Department to apply its rules to those guilty of sex crimes predating the act’s enactment.

In his words, “the framers of the Constitution thought the compartmentalization of legislative power not just a tool of good government or necessary to protect the authority of Congress from encroachment by the Executive but essential to the preservation of the people’s liberty …”

I am notcovinced that he would rule on the side of the government in the retroactive application of SOR laws.

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This is totally different then the economic melt down. These are jobs specializing in Sex offenses. These were more less not around until mid-late nineties. That being said, these jobs are VERY specialized and offense specific.

I agree that many industries that exploit are there for profits and many who work in those industries would lose their job at every position. But many programs at the federal, state and even local levels shut down and many lose their jobs anyway. in 2008-2009 during the economic depression, many state programs and agencies closed like a domino effect and very quickly too. Many employees who lost their job had to move to Federal agencies for work or other State or local agencies that kept alive. I know because I was one of them that lost their job as well as many colleagues of mine in prominent high level positions. They either move you around to another program/agency or you find a job on your own. It wasn’t the end of the world.

Conservatives tend to dislike government intervention and overreach and tend to interpret the Constitution literally as written. The conservative view of the Ex Post Facto clause is probably good for RSOs.