Partisan Judges Are Inconsistent with Basic Fairness – Both in the Olympics and Our Courts
Remember how Russian judges have long outraged Olympic fans for ruling in favor of “their side” in so many competitions? At the 2014 Sochi Olympic figure skating competition, most observers believed reigning champion Yuna Kim of South Korea had prevailed. Yet two Russian judges caused Russian figure skater Adelina Sotnikova to win gold by awarding her the highest scores of her career. The Russian skated off the ice into the arms of one of the Russian judges–for a hug.
The Trump administration’s recent firing of more than 100 immigration judges suggests it wants the equivalent of only “Russian judges” on our immigration courts—judges who always take the administration’s side. In our American system of justice, that is no “judge” at all.
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Trump’s $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund Has No Basis In The Law
Former federal judges contending Trump lawyers committed “fraud on the court” persuaded a sitting judge in Miami to take extraordinary action on May 29 and reopen the closed IRS case that prompted the creation of the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. U.S....
The New Battle Over the Voting Rights Act
Justice Alito characterized his opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___, 2016 WL 1153054(2026) as an “update” on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). It would be more accurate to describe Callais as a valediction – the last in a series of Supreme Court...
In Immigration Courts, An Ongoing Fight Over Due Process
Lawyers for immigrants in federal custody are engaged in a legal version of trench warfare with President Trump’s Department of Justice over a key and previously routine element of due process in immigration court: bond hearings.
Trump Is Using the Presidency to Enrich Himself and His Family
The extent to which President Trump has used the office of the President to enrich himself and his family is unprecedented in American history. While there have been isolated examples of corruption in U.S. history, such as the 1922 Teapot Dome scandal in which...
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