Hiring of immigration judges may have violated laws

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle/ L.A. Times

May 25, 2007, 11:53PM
Hiring of immigration judges may have violated laws
Officials say Justice Department considered applicants' political ties
By RICHARD B. SCHMITT
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Over the last two years, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has appointed more than two dozen individuals as federal immigration judges.

The new jurists include a former treasurer of the Louisiana Republican Party, who was a legal adviser to the Bush Florida recount team after the 2000 presidential election. There is also a former GOP congressional aide who had tracked voter fraud issues for the Justice Department, and a Texan who was once appointed by then-Gov. George W. Bush to a seat on the state library commission.

One thing missing on many of their resumes: a background in immigration law.

These lawyers are joining the ranks of a growing number of the more than 200 immigration judges around the United States who have little or no experience in the law they were appointed to enforce.



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[Uben]

1. who have little or no experience in the law they were appointed to enforce.

This sounds a lot like Gonzales. Obviously he is the most incompetent of them all, being as he is the one who does not understand what his job as AG is. He should be impeached and imprisoned for his treasonous activity and dereliction of duty.
We now have the worst president, vice-president, AG, Sec of State, and sc of defense the nation has ever seen....all at one time!

How can Americans stand by and just let this happen? Where are our representatives? Under the haystack, fast asleep?

We need to clean house, folks. We elected these people for a purpose, and they are not serving our purpose, but their own.
Maybe we need some people with less dollars and more common sense, as the current bunch seem to have little of the latter!

No more republicans, no more incumbent dems. New blood, new ideas, and a little less corruption....please!

[melm00se]

2. the political litmus test

is wrong. I wonder, however, if any judge is an expert on all the types of cases they see from the bench when first appointed?

[Uben]

3. no need to be an expert on all cases

...they just need to be experts on justice, and the correct way to administer it! They need to understand that politics are not an integral part of the judicial system, and that it CAN, and must, operate legitimately!

It's these fascist bastards who are in politics for profit that need to be fired and hung, publicly. Until we put a stop to the profitering in politics, it will not get any better. And with the crooks in congress making the laws, the only alternative is to clean house, lock stock and barrel! Replace all the supreme court justices, the federal judges, congress-critters....all of them. Kick their butts out and throw them in prison for the rest of their natural born life!

Yeah, that's it!