‘Capturing the courts’: CHILLING new UN Report shows U.S. ‘more vulnerable’ to authoritarianism

UN experts warn that the Trump administration is turning America's immigration courts into "deportation machines" through purges of its judges and using "administrative manipulation" to curb the courts' ability to carry out fair and impartial hearings. And it may not stop at immigration. Administrative judges – including those deciding Social Security cases – could be next, warns Margaret Satterthwaite, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers.

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