A shocking new report reveals that a third of Washington, D.C. district judges were not born in the United States, and to make matters worse, many of them had no prior experience as judges before being appointed.
What are we even doing here?
This was not always the case. There was a time, as recently as the 1980s when all of these judges were American born.
These judges make decisions on incredibly important issues. Is it too much to ask that they be Americans who have experience as judges?
There are 15 active DC District Judges. Of these, five were not born in the US, including judges born in Jamaica, India, Uruguay, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The Federalist reported this:
A Third Of All DC District Judges Were Not Born In United States
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the source of many of the cases interfering with President Donald Trump’s authority, has 15 judges, (Counting Chief Judge James Boasberg) and five of them were born outside the United States…
But starting in 2014, former President Barack Obama appointed Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan, born in Kingston, Jamaica. She was in the U.S. by 1979, attending George Washington University. Before sitting on federal court, she had no experience as a judge. Chutkan is overseeing the legal challenge to DOGE’s work to slash excess government spending.
Obama also appointed Judge Amit P. Mehta to the D.C. court. Mehta also had no previous experience as a judge. Mehta was born in Patan, Gujarat, India. He and his parents came to the U.S. when he was a baby, age one. He was raised in Maryland. Mehta will oversee four January 6 civil cases that aim to blame Trump for injuries and squeeze money, court time, and political embarrassment out of him.
The other three foreign born judges were nominated by former President Joe Biden.
Judge Ana Cecilia Reyes was nominated in 2021, also with no prior experience as a judge. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and moved to Spain, and while still a child, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she grew up.
How is this even possible, and why is no one talking about it?
