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Experts Question the Legality of Deploying #NationalGuard Officers as #Immigration Judges

Via #MotherJones - July 09, 2025

“This would be unlawful,” says #RachelVanLandingham, a professor at #SouthwesternLawSchool in #LosAngeles who was an #AirForce #JAG & is now president emerita of the nonprofit #NationalInstituteOfMilitaryJustice. And it’s “frightening,” because “the use of #MilitaryCourts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of #MartialLaw”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/florida-desantis-trump-national-guard-military-lawyers-jags-immigration-judges-legal/

Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges

"The use of military courts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of martial law."

Mother Jones