Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the use of involuntarily activating military lawyers as immigration judges to alleviate the backlog that has developed as a result of the Trump administration’s detention and deportation agenda.At Bloomberg Law, CERL Distinguished Senior Fellow Brenner M. Fissell discusses how this decision has continued a recent trend of forcing military resources to be used for civilian matters and creates a negative perception about these requisitioned judges’ impartiality.
Brenner M. Fissell is professor of law (with tenure) at Villanova Law. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Read his bio here.
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