Allowing masses of illegal migrants to enter the United States, as Biden did, is unquestionably bad for our country. But allowing legal immigrants — especially those with third-world backgrounds — to attain positions of power as judges is equally bad, though few are willing to point it out.
Today, as federal district judges assert unprecedented dictatorial power, it is all the more important to emphasize the danger. Note the following:
- Five of the 15 federal judges covering the Washington, DC, district are foreign born.
- Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, was appointed by Obama in 2014. She had no experience as a judge before her appointment. She is now overseeing the legal challenge to DOGE’s work in cutting excess government spending.
- Judge Amit P. Mehta, a native of India, also had no previous experience as a judge when appointed by Obama. Mehta will oversee four civil cases designed to blame Trump for injuries suffered during the January 6 incident.
- Judge Ana Cecilia Reyes, a native of Uruguay, was appointed by Biden in 2021. She also had no prior judicial experience. Reyes blocked Trump’s order declaring persons with gender dysphoria to be inconsistent with the “high standards for troop readiness.”
- Judge Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali was born and raised in Canada to Egyptian parents. He was appointed by Biden in 2024, also without experience as a judge. Ali is a Democrat activist who had worked on Biden’s 2020 campaign. He is a longtime Trump opponent who restored $2 billion in USAID spending when Trump attempted to block it.
- The fifth foreign-born judge is Sparkle Sooknanan, sworn in at the end the Biden administration on Jan. 2, 2025. A native of Trinidad and Tobago, she also lacked experience as a judge before being tapped. Last week, she ordered the reinstatement of Democrat Susan Grundmann to the Federal Labor Relations Authority, thus keeping a Democrat majority on the board.
As Beth Brelje writes in The Federalist:
The United States is in the midst of a soft coup. Not the violent kind that takes out a nation’s leader, but one orchestrated by judicial actions that choke off executive power before our eyes.
The only remedy now is for the Supreme Court to step in and this time, get its hands dirty, deliberate, and make real decisions based on the Constitution.
For more, see The Federalist.