ABA to Weigh Proposal on AG Powers Over Immigration Appeals

The Justice Department should set clear standards for when the attorney general intervenes in the immigration appeals process, says an American Bar Association resolution urging the agency to address a practice that’s become more common in the Trump administration.

The proposal over the attorney general’s certification powers is one of six immigration-related resolutions being advanced to the ABA’s policy-making body for a vote at the annual meeting beginning this week in San Francisco.

The resolutions “speak to the lack of fairness, transparency, and due process in the current immigration system,” said Wendy Wayne, chair of the ABA’s immigration commission, which ...