WASHINGTON, D.C.: Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch cast a surprise vote in a decision released Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) favoring an immigrant fighting deportation, siding with the US Supreme Court's left-leaning wing.

Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's only appointee to the top US court, joined in a 5-4 ruling stating that the legal definition of a crime of violence -- which was being used to deport Philippines-born James Garcia Dimaya -- was too vague.

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