Bloomberg Law quoted Shareholder Tamara Slater in an article titled: “Fired Immigration Judges Test Trump’s Executive Power in Suits.” According to the article, by Reporter Celine Castronuovo and Chicago correspondent Megan Crepeau, the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review has fired more than 100 immigration judges since President Trump took office in January 2025. At least eight of those judges have filed discrimination lawsuits against the government.
Fired judges could find it difficult to prove that protected classes were part of the calculus for their terminations, said Tamara Slater, a shareholder at Alan Lescht and Associates PC who represents clients in civil rights and antidiscrimination litigation.
“That tends to be one of the hardest pieces to prove in discrimination cases: not just that the adverse employment action was taken for a bad reason, but that it was taken for an unlawful reason,” Slater said.
The article states: “The lawsuits from fired judges could force federal courts to weigh in on the Trump administration’s assertion of the unitary executive theory, which says the president has total control over the executive branch.” Read the complete article on Bloomberg Law.
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