Fired Immigration Judge Sues Pam Bondi
Lawsuit by former Judge Tania Nemer says she was targeted for being a Lebanese American woman and Democrat, testing the limits of Article II power over the immigration courts.
WASHINGTON — A former federal immigration judge is suing Attorney General Pamela Bondi and the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging she was abruptly fired because she is a woman, the U.S.-born daughter of Lebanese immigrants with dual citizenship, and a Democrat who once ran for local judicial office.
The case directly challenges the Trump administration’s sweeping claim that the president has a constitutional right to dismiss federal workers for discriminatory reasons, a theory that could upend civil rights protections for millions of government employees if courts allow it to stand.
Who Is Suing and Why It Matters
The plaintiff, former immigration judge Tania Nemer, filed her complaint Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, naming Bondi in her official capacity as attorney general and the Department of Justice as defendants. Nemer, who served on the Cleveland Immigration Court within the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), says she was hired in 2…