Top DOJ official asks judges to step aside from immigration cases
A top official at the Justice Department is attempting to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from a pair of cases related to immigration.
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward has requested that two Minnesota federal judges, Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim, recuse themselves from immigration cases due to comments they made to the New York Times about the Trump administration's handling of immigration cases in the state. The Justice Department claims that the judges' comments raise questions about their impartiality in these cases.
The requests were filed on Tuesday in separate immigration cases, with a hearing scheduled for Schiltz's case on November 23. Both judges have scheduled hearings to address the motions against them.
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