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Immigration Judges Dismissing Faulty Deportation Requests In Record Numbers

Marian Wang, ProPublica. November 15, 2010.

According to TRAC, judges have rejected removal orders for more than a quarter of a million individuals in the past five years.

Judges Sound Off on Indefinite Detention, Urge Congress to Establish Guidelines

Chisun Lee, ProPublica. January 22, 2010.

Without a precedent for interpreting indefinite detention law, judges are forced to shape it themselves.

How Yawning Got One Court Spectator Six Months in the Slammer and Other Disturbing Acts of Judicial Tyranny

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. August 21, 2009.

When judges take on airs and lash out in fits of whimsical bullying, innocent people can end up paying the price with jail time -- or their lives.

New FEC Maneuvers: Von Spakovsky To Get Separate Vote

Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake. May 7, 2008.

In a bid to break a stalemate in the FEC appointment process, the Bush Administration will allow Hans von Spakovsky a separate vote.

Who Is Defending Pakistan's Democracy? Not the Politicians, It's the Judges

Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. November 29, 2007.

The heroes in Pakistan aren't returning former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif -- it's the Supreme Court and High Court judges who stopped Musharraf's assault on the Constitution.