{"id":22555,"date":"2026-06-23T23:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22555"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:46:52","slug":"as-trump-purges-immigration-judges-one-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22555","title":{"rendered":"As Trump Purges Immigration Judges, One Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administration is stealing immigrants&#8217; due process by: making it clear that if judges don&#8217;t rule the way the administration wants, they will be fired; giving judges so many cases that they can&#8217;t possibly give each case the attention they deserve; and hiring poorly trained judges whose job is just to order deportations, not to determine if deportation is appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"As Trump Purges Immigration Judges, One Speaks Out\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qSm_S9aN0YQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration is stealing immigrants&#8217; due process by: making it clear that if judges don&#8217;t rule the way the administration wants, they will be fired; giving judges so many cases that they can&#8217;t possibly give each case the attention they deserve; and hiring poorly trained judges whose job is just to order deportations, not to determine if deportation is appropriate. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qSm_S9aN0YQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[268,431,2108,838,221,26,493,25,201,1255,170],"class_list":["post-22555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asylum","tag-democracy","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-rule-of-law","tag-separation-of-powers","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555","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=22555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22556,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions\/22556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}