A Third Of All DC District Judges Were Not Born In United States

Federalist ^ | March 25, 2025 | Beth Brelje

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[ClearCase_guy]

I propose a New Constitutional Amendment:
Explicitly define a Natural Born Citizen, and require all judges be a Natural Born Citizen.

[TexasFreeper2009]

hard to believe the founders overlooked this!

a life appointment, and being born here isn’t even a criterion?

[Just mythoughts]

Send them home ... the USA is still ‘free born’ and NOT under a bunch of tin horn dictators!!!!!

[Red Badger]

This must end........

[gibsonguy]

Somehow all the most crucial cases end up in front of the worst of the hacks...somehow.

[Dr. Franklin]

he D.C. District has 10 older, senior judges who still occasionally hear cases in the district. This group, nominated as far back as Ronald Reagan the 1980s, were all born in the U.S.

In most districts, the senior judges get assigned to the self-represented, which is mostly prisoner's lawsuits. They get them off the dockets, and no one cares if they appear senile. By taking "senior status" they get more money than if they retired.

[cableguymn]

And require one parent to be a natural born or naturalized citizen to convey citizenship to a child at birth. Otherwise they are not a citizen.

[MeanWestTexan]

Sounds like a constitutional amendment is needed.

That Egyptian judge demanding aid to Egypt was pretty outrageous

[cableguymn]

The founders didn’t set up the lower courts. Congress did.

[MeanWestTexan]

All judges, cabinet level officials, US attorneys, and members of Congress.

[EinNYC]

Yeah, I’ve noticed how many foreign-born judges there are. How could they possibly intimately understand our culture?

[kenmcg]

Foreign born should be banned from becoming federal judges.

[Diogenesis]

they and their wives have KNOWINGLY attempted
to put a Blackrobed traitor into power
.... against the US Constitution.

[Verginius Rufus]

It’s a continuation of what happened when Biden was President when the foreign-born judge Merchan somehow got selected to preside over the so-called “hush money” trial last summer.

[blackdog]

Whoa.......?????

[Freeleesy]

Wow

[Brian Griffin]

A simple law might work:

No judge shall handle a case wherein a domestic government or government person is a party unless the judge shall have been born in the United States and clearly had a parent having US citizenship nine months prior to birth.

[sit-rep]

diversity is our strength...