{"id":19599,"date":"2025-09-22T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19599"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:00:00","slug":"senate-democrats-raise-concerns-over-pentagon-plan-to-use-military-lawyers-as-immigration-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19599","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats raise concerns over Pentagon plan to use military lawyers as immigration judges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Defense Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pentagon-dia-iran-intelligence-trump-kruse-5cb1fb89b8f12c3b517f139f6d840b48\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>&nbsp;approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges. It is part of the steps the Trump administration has taken to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-military-national-guard-congress-9010e7f1111b1ece534e3525b6f76638\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">use the military in broader ways<\/a>&nbsp;than previously seen, particularly in its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/labor-day-immigration-trump-9a40f9e371209cc1d145e4a7f157a499\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">immigration crackdown<\/a>, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-memphis-national-guard-deployment-crime-washington-f678a17a66d3e49b2f67930a6ea70e6b\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sending the National Guard<\/a>&nbsp;into American cities and deploying active duty&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-us-border-militarized-zones-arizona-trump-be3ee9f55a62c323ac5e03b5366f5d25\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">troops to the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese military officers would serve under the command and control of the Attorney General and would execute administrative determinations at the direction of the Attorney General,\u201d according to the letter signed by 12 Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee. It added that \u201cthese actions are inherently law enforcement actions that may not be performed by members of the armed forces.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/senate-democrats-raise-concerns-over-171333714.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/senate-democrats-raise-concerns-over-171333714.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges. It is part of the steps the Trump administration has taken to use the military in broader ways than previously seen, particularly in its immigration crackdown, including sending the National Guard into American cities and deploying active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese military officers would serve under the command and control of the Attorney General and would execute administrative determinations at the direction of the Attorney General,\u201d according to the letter signed by 12 Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee. It added that \u201cthese actions are inherently law enforcement actions that may not be performed by members of the armed forces.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/senate-democrats-raise-concerns-over-171333714.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1262,2108,838,221,26,493,25,1489,1637,259,865,170],"class_list":["post-19599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democrats","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-judges","tag-lawyer","tag-military","tag-senate","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19600,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions\/19600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}