[CitizenUSA]

I just don’t know how the executive branch can tie up a co-equal branch, the judiciary. AG Barr can decide whatever he wants, but he can’t tell the judges to butt out. Even if he is on legally solid ground here, judges do whatever they want regardless. They aren’t restrained by law or precedent—they overturn precedent whenever it suits them. They only play lip service to law when it suits their particular legal ax to grind.

[jjotto]

Immigration judges are appointed by the AG and are part of the Executive Branch, not the Judiciary.

Judiciary Branch lawlessness is not much affected by this.

[Political Junkie Too]

I just don’t know how the executive branch can tie up a co-equal branch, the judiciary.

Probably because these immigration judges are what they call "Article I" judges, or administrative judges created by Congress. I

The so-called co-equal judges are "Article III" judges, or trial judges created by Congress for appellate review under the Supreme Court.

The Article I judges perform executive review of administrative procedures and regulations under the direction of the Department of Justice.

-PJ