🤡CLOWN COURT REPORT: Dysfunctional “Court” System Notorious ☠️ For Denying Migrants’ Rights Forces Own Judges To Sue In Federal Court To Protect Their Individual Constitutional Rights!  — No Wonder The Mis-Management-Induced Backlogs Are Endless & Growing!

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/07/01/immigration-judges-to-sue-doj-alleging-unconstitutional-gag-on-speech/

Immigration Judges Sue DOJ, Alleging Unconstitutional Gag on Speech

It’s the latest clash between the immigration judges’ union and the Justice Department, after DOJ officials pushed to decertify the union.

By Jacqueline Thomsen | July 01, 2020 at 09:47 AM

A union of immigration judges is suing the Department of Justice over a policy allegedly restricting them from speaking publicly about immigration and other issues in violation of their constitutional rights, the latest escalation of tensions between the union and the federal department where they work.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday on behalf of the National Association of Immigration Judges by attorneys with the Knight First Amendment Institute and Virginia attorney Victor Glasberg, says DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review in 2017 began requiring the judges to seek preapproval to speak in their own capacity, and not on behalf of the office.

That was replaced earlier this year with a “more restrictive policy,” which mandates the judges cannot speak publicly about immigration or DOJ policies, and must obtain approval to speak, write or talk with members of the media about any other topic.

The lawsuit notes the policy was implemented during a series of changes in the immigration system and that the immigration judges are “uniquely positioned to inform the public on these issues, but the 2020 policy prevents them from doing so.”

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Those with NLJ access (or who haven’t exhausted their three free articles for the month) can read the rest of  Jacqueline’s article at the link.

The “DOJ/EOIR Clown Show” 🤡  rolls, on leaving the public interest in the dust and the road littered with the broken bodies and crushed souls of bona fide asylum seekers and other mistreated migrants.

Really, isn’t this continuing circus and parody of justice supposed to be under “adult supervision?” Obviously, both Congress and the Article III Courts have taken a pass on the role. So, what, in fact, are they good for?

I do understand why those responsible for this mess don’t want to be publicly “outed” for the fraud, waste, and abuse that they have created. The desire to escape accountability runs deep in bureaucracies, particularly in an Administration that lies about almost everything and consistently refuses to take responsibility for its own innumerable screw-ups. Dishonesty and lack of accountability starts at the top of this rubbish heap. 

Due Process Forever! Clown Courts 🤡 Never!

PWS

07-01-20