June 08, 2022
The Fourth Circuit has revived a challenge by federal immigration judges to a Trump-era policy barring them from speaking up about the immigration courts, after a labor official formally dissolved their union.
April 04, 2022
The Fourth Circuit ruled Monday that a union of immigration judges must follow an administrative procedure when challenging a U.S. Department of Justice policy barring them from speaking publicly on immigration because the union hasn't officially been decertified yet.
January 27, 2022
A Fourth Circuit panel grilled counsel for a union of immigration judges seeking to block a U.S. Department of Justice policy barring the jurists from speaking publicly on immigration, questioning why the dispute couldn't follow an administrative procedure for federal labor issues.
December 17, 2020
An immigration judges' union urged the Fourth Circuit Wednesday to block the Justice Department's prior restraint policy prohibiting them from speaking publicly about immigration, arguing their constitutional claims must be resolved by federal courts and not administratively, and that the claims aren't impacted by the union's collective bargaining status.
October 06, 2020
Federal courts, and not administrative hearings, are the proper venue for "muzzled" immigration judges to challenge a federal policy barring them from discussing their work publicly, the National Treasury Employees Union and legal scholars argued in amicus briefs filed in the Fourth Circuit.