Ruben Ceron v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

Today, the majority adopts an idiosyncratic approach to precedent to avoid following one of our en banc decisions. Although an en banc panel stated that “assault with a deadly weapon” is not a crime involving moral turpitude, see Navarro-Lopez v. Gonzales, 503 F.3d 1063, 1073 (9th Cir.2007), overruled on other grounds by United States v. Aguila-Montes de Oca, 655 F.3d 915 (9th Cir.2011) (en banc), and although this statement has been followed by subsequent panels, see, e.g., Robles-Urrea v. Holder, 678 F.3d 702, 708 (9th Cir.2012), Castrijons-Garcia v. Holder, 704 F.3d 1205, 1212 (9th…