House Republicans are demanding to know what led to a Justice Department order that a union of immigration judges get supervisor approval before speaking about the heavily backlogged courts. Rep. Jim Jordan, Judiciary Committee chair, and Rep.
FILE - An officer directs people to a courtroom, Jan. 10, 2024, in an immigration court in Miami. A 53-year-old union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak publicly to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged immigration courts in an election year. House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep.
The order appears to violate a guarantee that federal employees can speak freely with Congress, the lawmakers wrote David Neal, director of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, as the courts are known.that the chief immigration judge, Sheila McNulty, told leaders of the National Association of Immigration Judges that they need approval “to participate in writing engagements and speaking engagements .
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