United States v. James Cabaccang, United States of America v. Richard T. Cabaccang, United States of America v. Roy Toves Cabaccang

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge,

with whom O’SCANNLAIN, GRABER, McKEOWN and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, join, dissenting:

Our job as judges is to apply laws adopted by the political branches of government. As the Supreme Court has told us time and time again, see, e.g., HUD v. Rucker, 535 U.S. 125, 130-31, 122 S.Ct. 1230, 152 L.Ed.2d 258 (2002); United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Coop., 532 U.S. 483, 490-93, 121 S.Ct. 1711, 149 L.Ed.2d 722 (2001), where the statutory text is clear and speaks to the issue before us, we must faithfully enforce it, even if we firmly believe we could rewrite the…