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Playing Politics At The Bench: A White Paper On The Justice Department's Investigation Into The Hiring Practices Of Immigration Judges, Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic, National Immigration Project Of The National Lawyers Guild Oct 2009

Playing Politics At The Bench: A White Paper On The Justice Department's Investigation Into The Hiring Practices Of Immigration Judges, Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic, National Immigration Project Of The National Lawyers Guild

Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic Publications

On behalf of the National Lawyers Guild National Immigration Project (NLGNIP), the Center for Immigrants' Rights (Center) at the Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law prepared a white paper facilitated by a government report on the politicized hiring of immigration judges. This white paper is based findings by the Department of Justice‘s Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector General in their investigation of the illegal hiring of immigration judges during a period in the George W. Bush Administration. The recommendations presented here are a product of this analysis and extensive research on data produced by individuals …