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Attorney General Sessions’ Order to Speed Immigration Cases

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued an order Thursday seeking to speed up the handling of deportation cases, telling immigration judges they should only issue continuances in immigrant removal proceedings for “good cause.” Sessions, in an interim decision, said immigration judges could grant motions for continuances in removal cases “only ‘for good cause shown.’” The “good-cause standard,” he noted, “limits the discretion of immigration judges and prohibits them from granting...

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