June 12, 2007

US Courts Go the Way of the Dinosaur

This from the Washington Post:
Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties
Law Forbids Practice; Courts Being Reshaped
By Amy Goldstein and Dan Eggen -- Washington Post Staff Writers

"The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

"At least one-third of the immigration judges appointed by the Justice Department since 2004 have had Republican connections or have been administration insiders, and half lacked experience in immigration law. . ."

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These thugs will truly stop at nothing in their attempts to achieve a one-party system.

1 comment:

TomCat said...

That has always been the goal of the Bush Reich, has it not?