One Immigration Judge’s Opinion

From the Wall Street Journal Online:

The immigration judge who dismissed the government’s long-running case against the “L.A. 8″ retired this month, and, free from Justice Department restrictions against speaking to the press, had some strong words for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The judge, Bruce Einhorn, in a story in the Daily Journal, a California legal publication, took issue with a January 2006 Gonzales memo saying some immigration judges had displayed “intemperate or even abusive” behavior on the bench. “I find it somewhat presumptuous that a government official who signed off on a memorandum which described certain anti-torture provisions of the Geneva Convention as quaint would then lecture judges on the need to show compassion for the foreign-born,” Einhorn told the Daily Journal. “I think the remarks were driven by what was perceived to be the need to demonstrate that the attorney general was not part of the problem.”

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KJ