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KUCANA  v.  HOLDER 

Opinion of the Court 

The last category, § 1252(a)(2)(C), concerns ﬁnal orders of re­
moval entered against criminal aliens. 

Both  § 1252(a)(2)(A)  and  § 1252(a)(2)(C)  depend  on  statu­
tory provisions, not on any  regulation, to deﬁne their scope. 
The latter provision, the criminal alien bar, precludes judicial 
review of “any ﬁnal order of removal against an alien who is 
removable by reason of having committed a criminal offense 
covered in” § 1182(a)(2), § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), (B), (C), or (D), or 
certain offenses covered in § 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii).  All the deﬁn­
ing  references  are  statutory;  none  invokes  a  regulation. 
The  same  holds  for  the  admissibility  bar  in  § 1252(a)(2)(A). 
Given  § 1252(a)(2)(B)’s  statutory  placement,  sandwiched  be­
tween  subsections  (a)(2)(A)  and  (a)(2)(C),  one  would  expect 
that it, too, would cover statutory provisions alone. 

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Focusing  on  § 1252(a)(2)(B),  we  note  the  lead  line  serving 
to  introduce  both  of  the  subparagraph’s  two  clauses:  “[N]o 
court shall have jurisdiction to review . . . .”  Clause (i) then 
places within the no-judicial-review category “any judgment 
regarding  the  granting  of  relief  under  section  1182(h), 
1182(i), 1229b, 1229c, or 1255.”  Each of the statutory provi­
sions  referenced  in  clause  (i)  addresses  a  different  form  of 
discretionary  relief  from  removal,  see  supra,  at  239,  n.  2, 
and  each  contains  language  indicating  that  the  decision  is 
entrusted  to  the  Attorney  General’s  discretion.  See,  e. g., 
§ 1182(h)  (“The  Attorney  General  may,  in  his  discretion, 
waive [inadmissibility based on  certain criminal offenses].”). 
Clause (i) does not refer to any regulatory provision. 

To the clause (i) enumeration of administrative judgments 
that  are  insulated  from  judicial  review,  Congress  added  in 
clause  (ii)  a  catchall  provision  covering  “any  other  decision 
.  .  .  the  authority  for  which  is  speciﬁed  under  this  subchap­
ter.”  The  proximity  of  clauses  (i)  and  (ii),  and  the  words 
linking them—“any other decision”—suggests that Congress 
had  in  mind  decisions  of  the  same  genre,  i. e.,  those  made