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David Martin: “Another Second-Class Citizen: How the Justice Department has been debasing immigration courts for years”

Martin1506_best David Martin (Virginia) published a thoughtful commentary on the July 28 Department of Justice Inspector General’s report in Legal Times on partisanship in the appointment of immiogration judges.  here is the great punch line:  “The dominant impression the July 28 report gives about immigration judge hiring is simply that Sampson and Goodling saw the immigration bench as a cookie jar, and only Republicans deserved a cookie.”  Download legal_times_goodling_final.doc

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