Nicholas Nehamas

Under Biden, that crept up to more like one in two.

She expected the typical back and forth.

Now we're going from a Democrat back to a Republican.

The policies are going to change.

It's going to be how it was during Trump won.

But very quickly, she found that that was not the case.

And the moment that became clear to her was when judges all around her started being fired.

The firing started with the people at the top of the courts.

Which wasn't totally unexpected with a new administration coming in.

But then a rank-and-file judge got fired.

And then more rank-and-file judges got fired.

And more rank-and-file judges got fired.

And that suddenly started to seem like a five-alarm fire.

Some of these judges told us that they were fired while they were making decisions from the bench and had to tell the lawyers and the respondents that they couldn't finish a case because they had been told they were no longer an immigration judge.

Wow.

Had you ever seen this kind of mass firing before?

So in total, about 15% of judges have been fired by this administration.

And that's not even counting the ones who quit or retired because they saw the writing on the wall.

The administration never explained why it was firing these judges, but the top official in the immigration court sends out a memo saying,

telling judges essentially that it's come to the administration's attention that some of them are tolerating bias, quote, in favor of an alien and against the government.