Looks like the Biden regime DOJ are not big fans of the 1st Amendment. Also, aren’t the judges part of the Judicial Branch, not the Executive?
Immigration judges ‘muzzled’ from speaking publicly by DOJ amid historic 3 million-case backlog
Immigration judges have been put under a gag order by the Department of Justice (DOJ), stopping them from talking publicly amid an unprecedented 3 million cases waiting to be heard in courts.
The National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) said its members need to get prior approval from the DOJ to speak, per orders from the department’s manager, Chief Immigration Judge Sheila McNulty.
The union had previously been outspoken amid record numbers of migrants arriving at the border and filing claims in immigration courts, overwhelming the already strained system.
Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, an umbrella organization supporting the NAIJ, told The Post the order is unprecedented.
“They’ve never been muzzled before,” Biggs said.
I guess Democracy Is At Stake, requiring an Executive Branch agency tasked with upholding the Constitution to muzzle judges. We can’t have the citizens know what the hell is actually going on, eh?
Former immigration Judge Matt O’Brien, who now serves as director of investigations at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, told The Post: “The NAIJ has long advocated judicial independence for the immigration bench.
“However, this administration wants a compliant immigration judge workforce that will find a reason to approve any cases assigned to it. As a result, the Department of Justice has a vested interest in prohibiting the NAIJ from drawing public attention to flaws in that approach.”
Now, imagine it was the Trump admin which did this: how would the Credentialed Media react? How many mentions of Fascism would show up?
Immigration judges are a part of the Executive Branch, not the judicial. Just as state judges are part of the state government, not the federal judiciary.
Immigration judges are not judicial branch employees, but are executives appointed by the Attorney General.
Mr Teach typed: Looks like the Biden regime DOJ are not big fans of the 1st Amendment.
He excised this tidbit from the NY Post article:
Is it a violation of the First Amendment for a US agency to limit the public output from US employees?
Mr Teach typed: … aren’t the judges part of the Judicial Branch, not the Executive?
Other commenters pointed out that immigration judges are part of the Executive branch. As such, can the Executive Branch arbitrarily increase the number of immigration judges??? If not, why not?
Rimjob types a few more hypothetical questions in order to appear clever.
Rimjob types a few more hypothetical questions in order to appear clever.
