Quality Judges

Can someone become a judge in the United States? The answer varies from state to state and sometimes varies from court. In addition, some methods of selecting state judges judges are more effective than other judges in choosing qualified and impartial judges and stimulating public confidence in the courts. The IAALS Quality Review Initiative promotes the selection, maintains these qualities, ensures public accountability, and evaluates and maintains the judge's model to prevent political damage to the important role of our judiciary It is devoted to doing.

Professionalism. We recognize that higher quality judgment is necessary to achieve better quality judgment no matter how it is achieved. Just by transferring an existing judge to the first court (or another agency) without additional resources, training and qualifications does not necessarily improve the quality of decision making sufficiently. In other parts of this report, we encourage you to increase resources and training and enhance your qualifications to make the immigration judicial judicial department more specialized. I also believe that it is necessary to make this judicial system independent in order to attract the highest quality judge who can carry out work and be able to make decisions without fear of arbitrary dismissal, transfer, or other sanctions I will.

The judge pointed out that the judge "has no representative function": "Justice does not need to reflect or satisfy the public opinion in its decision." In fact, "The judge needs the most It is pressure against public opinion. " To ensure that the rule of law takes precedence over the policy that was changing at the time. Noting that the judgment does not have to be elected by appointing federal and early national judges as a precedent, paying attention to voter opinion within their jurisdiction was extremely biased by the judges Suggesting that it will replace fairness and inappropriate party relations.

Although the quality of immigration judges has been concerned for a long time, the increase in the number of opinions announced by the Federal Circuit Court, which began to criticize immigration judges in 2002, seems to have raised interest in this issue is there. Participants in the immigration control system identify several issues relating to supervision, competence and discipline of immigration judges. These problems can be divided into several categories: lack of proper monitoring, lack of transparency and accountability for disciplinary actions, and inappropriate political impact.