Politics_And_Law

The Department of Justice quietly told former Immigration Judge Tania Nemer that Title VII doesn’t apply to Immigration Judges, that they can be fired “for any reason or no reason at all,” including discriminatory ones, with no civil rights recourse.

This policy was never announced. Never disclosed. Never debated.

It only became public when the letter surfaced as a court exhibit today (December 1, 2025) in Case 1:25-cv-04170.

**Read the original DOJ letter:**  
<https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287227/gov.uscourts.dcd.287227.1.8.pdf>

**What DOJ claims:**

- Immigration Judges are Article II “inferior officers”
- The Attorney General may remove them at will
- EEO laws “do not supersede Article II”
- IJs lack protected property interests for due process

**Translation:** Every civil rights protection for federal employees — gone.

Immigration Judges can now be fired for political, ideological, or discriminatory reasons, and DOJ says no civil rights law applies.

We only know because it hit PACER today. The public wasn’t supposed to see this.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​