In the continuing “What in the name of all that is good and holy is the Supreme Court doing?!” series, the court ruled 5-4 today to ease rules to allow visa overstayers to legally stay in the United States.

The court ruled 5-4 Monday that someone who is here illegally may withdraw his voluntarily agreement to depart and continue to try to get approval to remain in the United States.

The decision essentially embraced a proposed Justice Department regulation governing the treatment of similar cases in the future.

Now for the liberal sob story of the poor person who voluntarily overstayed his welcome then demanded the right to stay.

Samson Dada, a Nigerian citizen, stayed beyond the expiration of his tourist visa in 1998. He married an American the following year and soon began trying to obtain a visa as an immediate relative of a citizen. But Dada and his wife apparently failed to submit some documents, causing immigration officials to deny the visa.

Dada has been trying again to obtain the visa, but immigration authorities meanwhile have ordered him to leave the country.

He agreed to leave voluntarily, which would allow him to try sooner to re-enter the country legally than if he had been deported.

The court’s task was to decide whether he could withdraw his voluntary agreement to leave the country and continue to try to adjust his status while in the United States.

Funny thing, really: Immigration authorities recently discovered that the “marriage” was a sham move in order to allow Dada to stay in the states. So the whole marriage was just a stunt. Yet for some reason Kennedy and the four liberal judges didn’t consider that in their decision.

Amazing. F’n Stupid.

More: Michelle Malkin is equally surprised that the marriage was/is a sham.