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Hanging Judges, Anyone?

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/27/18

Placed alongside the criminal conviction of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager on tax and bank-fraud charges and the guilty plea of his former lawyer/fixer to paying off two women to keep the future President’s affairs with them from coming to light during the 2016 campaign, the removal of an immigration judge for a single ruling by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions seems quaint, however disproportionate.

But the action taken against immigration judge Steven A. Morley represents another attempt by the Trump Administration to intimidate those who work for it into adhering to its immigration crackdown even when it concerns those whose improper entry into the U.S. came while they were minors.

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