Discussion: Sessions Tells New Immigration Judges To Be 'Imaginative And Inventive' With Lengthy Backlogs

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“As you take on this critically important role, I hope that you will be imaginative and inventive in order to manage a high-volume caseload,” he said.

If that doesn’t scream “Activist judge,” I don’t know what does.

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The reunification of parents and children creeps along at a very slow pace. Move the process along, Jeff.

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I have a very simple suggestion, although somehow I don’t think it will be heeded:

just grant the goddam requests for asylum.

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Seems like a good solution to me -It’s creative and efficient- but I concur that’s it probably not what El Jeffy had in mind.

There’s also efficiency gains to be had by not asking everyone born in the rio grande valley to prove their citizenship and not re-reviewing decades of naturalization applications in search of typos.

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“As you take on this critically important role, I hope that you will be imaginative and inventive in order to manage a high-volume caseload,” he said. “I do not apologize for expecting you to perform, at a high level, efficiently and effectively.”

He continued, “As you seek your own personal affirmation and faith in this critical role we’ve placed upon you, I suggest that you pray the immigrants away.”

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“Efficiency!” – A sadly recurrent rallying cry.

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“As you take on this critically important role, I hope that you will be imaginative and inventive in order to manage a high-volume caseload,” he said. “I do not apologize for expecting you to perform, at a high level, efficiently and effectively.”

Does anyone else hear the “imply” that we’ve got cattle cars to fill in this statement?

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‘Imaginative And Inventive’ …

… typical Republican crap language for “activist” …

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I hope that you will be imaginative and inventive

I thought Republicans wanted judges who enforce the law as written, not ones who legislate from the bench.

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Jeff and the Rump imagine American workers should be as supplicant and grateful for eight bucks an hour with no benefits, as are immigrants who’ve literally risked their lives for the privilege. Nobody should want a judge to invent ways to make that happen.

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Gotta love due process here. You know you are not on the right side when you are advocating sham trials.

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Hey, not everyone, just everyone born with a midwife instead of a doctor, which means a hell of a lot of poor Hispanic Texans. In other words, overwhelmingly the people least likely to have the “proof” the government is claiming they retroactively need, decades later, often when the parents aren’t even alive anymore to tell their kids they didn’t hold on to receipts from prenatal care given to them in the 1950s.

A birth certificate is proof of citizenship, isn’t that what the voter suppression folks have been screaming all these years?

Oh, wait.

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“Imaginative” and “inventive” methods like having toddlers represent themselves? How is that not due process?

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Gol dang it! … Use your imaginations! …

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“Activist Judge:” A judge who rules against your prejudices.

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As opposed to legal, fair, and efficient?

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Give 'em a fair trial and then hang 'em, is that right, Jeffy?

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Heard often in Nazi Germany.

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Exactly so, and going back to Sparta.