Holder Starts to Unpack Ashcroft's BIA

Published August 03, 2009 @ 09:17PM PT

Eric Holder has reappointed John Guendelsberger to the Board of Immigration Appeals, returning him to the position he held before former Attorney General Ashcroft purged the BIA of its pro-migrant members back in 2002-03. The BIA has been notoriously bad since Ashcroft's demented court-packing scheme, denying appeals in Affirmances Without Opinion by single members and getting reamed by Judge Posner and his colleagues on the federal bench for shoddy reasoning and unsupportable conclusions.

We will hope this is a small step towards sanity for EOIR after a troubled period for the BIA and for the countless families it split up.

Next, how about giving Judge Brennan her old job back?

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