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Posted by: Aidenag 2 years, 5 months agoThe Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
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Radiofreeeuropa
June 11, 2007, 12:52 a.m."the Justice Department began to jettison the civil service process that traditionally guided the selections in favor of political considerations".
Every other position has been filled by unqualified incompetents why not immigration?
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Amazing1
June 11, 2007, 8:29 a.m.From the article: "All the judges appointed during this period who arrived with experience in immigration law were prosecutors or held other immigration enforcement jobs."
So the judges selected were either neo-cons or had ENFORCEMENT experience. This whole thing is puzzling, given that the President is so in favor of immigration reform (amnesty) he is at the same time setting up the judiciary to be ANTI illegal immigrant. What is really going on?
Of course, Radiofreeeuropa has probably hit the nail on the head by suggesting that the level of incompetency must be maintained throughout the system.
AAGGHH!
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ETproductions
June 11, 2007, 10:47 a.m.The next president is going to have to fully clean house at Justice or we will continue on with a rankly partisan agenda of justice for all who are GOP contributors instead of the blind justice which it it supposed to administer.
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Antitax
June 11, 2007, 2:07 p.m.Surely this dufus is joking. You mean Clinton picked jud=ges soley based on expertise. Bull @#@#@!!!!!
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donald51
June 11, 2007, 6:28 p.m.It really rankles the Repugs that in spite of their investigating Bill for 7 years that he still left office with a 65% approval rating!
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UBCONFUSE
June 11, 2007, 5:22 p.m.I just love the Bush bashers. Their theme is always the same.
The facts is, every President is allowed to appoint whomever POTUS thinks he can get past the Senate. Clinton appointed some real knuckle draggers who ended up being a total embarrassment. I forget who the Black woman MD Clinton named as Surgeon General. She was on the nightly 6:30 PM news talking about masturbation and how good it is for you. Masturbation and other actions using the Presidential penis were popular with Clinton, but seemed to evoke strong emotions with everyone else. His Agricultural Secretary was headed for indictment when his plane crashed.( wonder how that happened?)
I could name more, but the point is, the left forgets the process when the knuckle dragging appointee is a democrat.
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wastedvoteinNY
June 11, 2007, 5:54 p.m.More breaking news and investigative reporting from the WP.
"FLASH...........we've just learned that it is common pratice for an administration to appoint persons of their own political persuasion to positions usually filled by political appointees. Apparantly this has happened before, but until now, it just wasn't news worthy"
Spin at 11:00
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DoerNotASayer
June 11, 2007, 6:14 p.m.Of course, the real problem with Bushies, and we see it over and over, it their putting political considerations AHEAD of competence.
All you Bushies can point to Clinton and moan and groan all day long, but the fact is that Clinton appointed people who were qualified to do the job, and Clinton had a very competent administration that accomplished a lot.
Bush, on the other hand...WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!!!!!!!!
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RhodesScholar
June 11, 2007, 7:39 p.m.You can't be this dumb. These appointments and selections are ALWAYS politically motivated. ALWAYS! The democrats did it, the republicans are doing it, and when the democrats win the POTUS again, the democrats will do it again. They function the same, folks. That is just a part of the sytem. The dems are just as bad as the repub. and vise versa, have you forgotten the terrible Clinton administration!
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spikecwc
June 11, 2007, 9:13 p.m.Well now, since Bush is an open borders RINO, this should make the Libs happy.
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ramblingwreck
June 11, 2007, 9:14 p.m.From the article: "Still, the injection of political considerations into the selection of immigration judges has attracted congressional attention in the wake of controversy over the Bush administration's dismissal last year of nine U.S. attorneys."
If the authors were interested in a truly unbiased assessment of judicial appointments, they would have performed their analysis on judicial appointments during the course of our nation's history. Anyone believing that it is only the current administration that has considered political ideology for judicial appointments is deluded.
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HMMace
June 11, 2007, 9:16 p.m.Bring all the illegal alien scab laborers in, and put them on welfare, and pay them from the senators pension fund...
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dunkirk
June 11, 2007, 9:17 p.m.Wow another day , another Bush fiasco. It does make it hard for the Bushies to change subjects or topics these days, it just leads to another Bush fiasco.
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HMMace
June 11, 2007, 9:17 p.m.When the illeagl alien needs welfare, pay them out of the senators pension fund..
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agentX
June 11, 2007, 9:20 p.m."Those two officials, D. Kyle Sampson and Monica M. Goodling, have said they were told the practice was legal. But Justice spokesman Dean Boyd said that immigration judges are considered civil service employees who may not be chosen based on political factors, unlike judges in federal criminal courts."
Yeah, another convenient thing Gonzo forgot about while testifying to Congress.
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