Always the victim
Fired worker sues government in a case that could upend civil rights laws
Tania Nemer is one of dozens of immigration judges fired by the Trump administration this year.
But a new lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., suggests what happened to Nemer — and why — has the potential to scramble the federal workforce and upend foundational civil rights laws.
Nemer alleges that despite top performance reviews, she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat. Those reasons, she says, are all in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment.
The government has responded by arguing that the president’s power to oversee the executive branch under Article II of the U.S. Constitution essentially overrides that core civil rights law, Nemer’s attorney said.
They serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States Of America. Said POTUS doesn’t even necessarily need a reason. And, why in the hell is anyone with dual citizenship serving in the federal government, be it Lebanon or Canada? Anyhow, these judges are under the DOJ, and many of them have just ended their 2 year probationary period or in that period, before they are converted to full government employees. Nemer was hired in 2023, and most likely was going soft on illegal aliens, like many Democrat appointed judges.
Nemer filed a formal discrimination complaint with an Equal Employment Opportunity office a month after she was fired. That office dismissed her claims in September, asserting in its decision that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act conflicts with the president’s power to remove federal workers within the executive branch.
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(Hindustan Times) Tania Nemer is an Ohio-based attorney and former federal immigration judge. A John Carroll University graduate with a J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. She built her career in criminal defense and immigration law, working for Catholic Charities, the International Institute of Akron, and as Of Counsel in private practice.
So, most surely because she was being soft on illegals, based on her previous work
“According to the final agency decision, the President may now fire female federal workers like Ms. Nemer — because of their sex — and the law would have nothing to say about it,” according to the new lawsuit. “According to the final agency decision, the President can now fire federal workers born to immigrant parents with dual citizenship like Ms. Nemer — because of their national origin — and they would have no recourse. And under the same logic, the President can fire federal workers like Ms. Nemer — because of their political activities and affiliations — and the courts would be powerless to act.”
Yeah, political activities and affiliations. Just like always.
Why would we ever have an immigration judge who is a dual citizen of Lebanon, or any other country? She would have an automatic conflict of interest when it came to any immigration cases involving Lebanese.
The Catholic Church favors both refugees and open immigration, and it would seem that an immigration judge with her background would have an automatic bias in favor of potential immigrants. If an immigration judge is going to have any bias, it should be a bias in favor of protecting our country!
William typed: “… why in the hell is anyone with dual citizenship serving in the federal government…”
The United States government keeps no records of dual citizenship.
Get this: Members of the U.S. military DO NOT have to be U.S. citizens to enlist, but they must be lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders) or U.S. nationals. There are thousands of non-citizens in the miliitary!! Non-citizens serving honorably in the military can apply for naturalization and may bypass some typical requirements like the general residency period. Officers must be U.S. citizens.
Elon Musk is a triple citizen – South Africa, Canada and the United States. Yikes.
Melanoma Trump is a citizen of Slovenia and the United States! As is her son, Barron,
Senator Ted Cruz was a dual Canadian and U.S. citizen until 2014.
Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) wants to outlaw dual citizenship for Americans. Moreno was born in Colombia.
Although Big Donnie opposes it, dual citizenship is on the rise in the U.S.