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| Subject: Putrid Bush administration sets limit on immigrants' rights to lawyer Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:27 am | |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration has decided that immigrants facing deportation do not have an automatic right to an effective lawyer.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says in a 33-page decision that the Constitution does not entitle someone facing deportation to have his case reopened based upon shoddy work by a lawyer.
Mukasey says Justice Department officials do have the discretion to reopen such cases.
Immigrants rights groups say Mukasey's decision rejects decades of established legal practice. Mukasey's ruling comes less than two weeks before the Bush administration leaves office. Democrat Barack Obama takes the oath as president on Jan. 20.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMMIGRANTS_RIGHTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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