As employees of the US Dept. of Justice, immigration judges are covered by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (one of numerous post-Watergate gov't reorganizations that Jimmy Carter signed into law)
Under the CSRA, civil-servant federal employees are protected from summary at-will dismissal
Fed. Cir. also granted initial en banc review in the IEEPA tariffs case (VOS Selections)
Like that case, this case is destined for SCOTUS, and it is a potentially big step toward a formally consolidated "unitary executive"
Appellant's peittion (now granted) for initial en banc review 👇
Immigration judges are not technically "judges" in the sense of Article III of the US constitution. They exercise "quasi-judicial" power that congress has granted them by statute, and they are gov't employees of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, and office within the US Dept. of Justice
Councilman Charles Allen was there, but I don’t remember much about him
Former DC attorney general Karl Racine was there too, and it was 💯 unmistakable that he was a politician
I think we might have a patriotic duty to put phosphates in the reflecting pool
has anyone figured out who tf is pouring the hydrogen peroxide in the reflecting pool? the same pool guy who did the blue paint?
