What happened to those six judges is not a glitch in the system; it is the system revealing itself.<\/p>\n
They were removed not because they failed, but because they granted refuge too often in a climate<\/p>\n
obsessed with deterrence and deportation statistics.<\/p>\n
When judicial independence is quietly punished, every future decision is shadowed by fear:<\/p>\n
rule according to conscience, and you could be next.<\/p>\n
In that silence, the law itself begins to bend.<\/p>\n
Their replacements signal the new design: a bench increasingly stocked with former<\/p>\n
prosecutors and military lawyers, people steeped in adversarial roles,<\/p>\n
now asked to appear neutral while operating under political expectations.<\/p>\n
Some will resist the pressure; many will adapt. But once a government learns it<\/p>\n
can curate outcomes by curating judges, the practice rarely stays confined to immigrants.<\/p>\n
Today, it\u2019s asylum seekers. Tomorrow, it\u2019s protestors, journalists, you.<\/p>\n
Judicial engineering never stops where it starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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