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Immigration judges suing the Trump administration over gag rule saying it violates their right to free speech
Business Insider ^ | July 1, 2020 | Charles Davis

Posted on 07/01/2020 4:28:48 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

In January, the Trump administration issued a rule prohibiting immigration judges from speaking about their job or their take on US policy.

The one exception is judges who serve in their union. But the Trump administration is also trying to decertify that union.

On July 1, the National Association of Immigration Judges filed a lawsuit alleging that the administration is violating the right to free speech.

"We are in the midst of an urgent public debate about immigration reform in this country and some of the most crucial voices in that debate are being silenced," Ramya Krishnan, staff attorney at Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, said in a July 1 statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gag; gagrule; immigration; judges
Judges can issue gag rules in their courts on cases, but oppose gag rules preventing them from talking about their cases as a free speech violation. Amazing.
1 posted on 07/01/2020 4:28:48 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She needs to be literally gagged like most


2 posted on 07/01/2020 4:46:11 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why the %$^ is there a judges union?


3 posted on 07/01/2020 4:46:43 AM PDT by pas
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Columbia University, with Harvard Law School,
OWES America One Hundred Trillion Dollars
in Reparations for the FRAUDS knowns as Obola and Warren.

.... for starters.


4 posted on 07/01/2020 4:50:02 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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They’re supposed to be non-political...Roberts said so.


5 posted on 07/01/2020 4:57:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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about their JOB and cases is not the same thing.


6 posted on 07/01/2020 4:58:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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And who will judge this travesty of a trial? . More judges! What a crock


7 posted on 07/01/2020 5:02:41 AM PDT by SaintDismas
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A Union for Judges? WTF? Maybe President Trump should have one and then his Presidential Union could file grievances with Congress all day long 🤣
8 posted on 07/01/2020 5:07:07 AM PDT by Lockbox
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Constitutional rights were written FOR and apply TO American citizens.... get it?


9 posted on 07/01/2020 5:29:55 AM PDT by SMARTY (Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
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Constitutional rights were written FOR and apply TO American citizens.... challenges to US immigration policy are a moot point anyway


10 posted on 07/01/2020 5:31:52 AM PDT by SMARTY (Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
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I hope the article at the link is not a news report. It reads like an opinion screed, and should be labeled as such (but I didn’t see it ...).


11 posted on 07/01/2020 5:47:48 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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I believe immigration judges are part of the Executive Branch, not the Judicial Branch, and are subject to the President.


12 posted on 07/01/2020 7:10:13 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Tell them to put on a mask and talk in public...no one can hear you. But not a violation of the same magnetude? Try sidewalk counseling. Impossible.


13 posted on 07/01/2020 10:40:39 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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