Using military lawyers as immigration judges sets precedent with no limits

Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, this week, approved a plan to detail up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department as temporary immigration judges. The goal is to ease a backlog of roughly 3.5 million cases that has grown up over the years. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis spoke with Ira Rushing from the Tully Rinckey law firm about what this process would look like and the precedent this decision could set for the country. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .