Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision Friday rejecting a constitutional challenge to a law that makes it a crime to “encourage” or “induce” someone to break immigration laws.

The ruling reinstated the conviction under that law of a California man accused of running a nearly $2 million fraudulent “adult adoption” scheme involving unsuspecting immigrants.

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