https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/its-in-the-tiny-print/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:55:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/its-in-the-tiny-print/comment-page-1/#comment-13392 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:55:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2006/04/its-in-the-tiny-print/#comment-13392 One would suppose that might depend on who’s occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue….But points well made.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/04/its-in-the-tiny-print/comment-page-1/#comment-13391 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:46:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2006/04/its-in-the-tiny-print/#comment-13391 Immigration Judges most certainly do NOT have lifetime appointments. They are employees of EOIR, a sub-agency of DOJ. They serve at the pleasure of the Attorney General. Currently, their job qualifications already include “knowledge of immigration laws and procedures.” Moreover, Kobach is simply wrong when he says that the only group of lawyers with sufficient immigration-law experience to meet this bill’s standard is the immigration defense bar. The obvious other group of qualified lawyers are those working on the other side, for the Department of Homeland Security in the former INS. There is no reason to assume that that pool of lawyers would be disinclined to enforce the law.

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