DOJ Made Immigration Judgeships Political

[proud2BlibKansan]

DOJ Made Immigration Judgeships Political
By Emma Schwartz and Jason McLure
Legal Times

Monday 28 May 2007

Few people in El Paso know more about immigration law than Guadalupe Gonzalez, a lawyer who has prosecuted illegal immigration cases along the Texas border for nearly 25 years. In 2002, after seeing an advertisement, she applied - and was passed over - for an opening on the local bench of one of the nation's 54 immigration courts. But when two more vacancies arose in 2004, nobody bothered to tell Gonzalez. In fact, the positions were never advertised.

Instead, the Justice Department's leadership, which oversees the immigration courts, used a little-known power to appoint two lower- level attorneys - both of whom Gonzalez had supervised at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in El Paso - to the $115,000-a-year positions.

The authority used to bypass the competitive hiring process would be employed again and again during the last year of Attorney General John Ashcroft's tenure and continue when Alberto Gonzales succeeded him in 2005. And according to the immigration court's former administrator, it also allowed top political aides at Justice, including former Gonzales chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson and former White House liaison Monica Goodling, to fast-track candidates of their choosing - including a number of lawyers with no immigration law experience but strong ties to the Republican Party or President George W. Bush's election campaigns.

During her day-long testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Goodling, under a grant of immunity, admitted that she asked inappropriate questions of many applicants for career jobs at the department and evaluated candidates based on her perception of their political loyalties. "I believe I crossed the line, but I didn't mean to," she testified.

more . . .
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Y.shtml

[merh]

1. "I believe I crossed the line, but I didn't mean to," she testified.

Impotent dem leadership, they have more than enough to stop these rat bastards and they won't do it.

Have they forgotten that we were fighting in Viet Nam when Nixon's articles of impeachment were drawn up and he was forced to resign?

Do they not realize that the future of our nation hinges on them, if we want to salvage what is left of our liberties and our humanity, we have to remove the admin that is destroying all we value?

:argh:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Yes they have forgotten

They forgot why we elected them and they forgot their duty as our reps. It repulses me. :puke:

[merh]

3. I just don't understand

Are they frightened, did the illegal wiretapping produce something that the dems are afraid of?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I think they are beholden to their corporate donors

Our Dem congressman is well endowed by Sprint, whose world headquarters is here in my city. I honestly believe he is more interested in what Sprint wants than in what I want.

[Igel]

6. The US signed a treaty in 1/03 with Vietnam,

calling for withdrawal of US forces. US was off the battlefield by summer '73.

Impeachment hearings started in 5/74, a year later.

[Rex]

5. Piracy - the whole lot of em need to be thrown in a dungeon

never to see the light of day again IMO. They've replaced regulation with piracy! Jack Rackman is a light weight compared to people like Cheney.