even better. The Judge is exposed as an angry
The 38-page memo from Schwab, available in its entirety
here (pdf), is a mess. More importantly, it doesn’t seem to have any legal weight – as msnbc’s Amanda Sakuma
reported, the opinion “will not likely have any direct impact or serve to invalidate the policy.” The White House policy remains fully intact; Schwab’s angry missive was effectively little more than a press release.
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, a law professor at Pennsylvania State University and expert in prosecutorial discretion in immigration law,
told msnbc, “It strikes me as odd for a single judge to devote so many pages of a memo to his feelings about the president’s executive action when the case itself is about an individual immigrant who faces illegal re-entry charges.
There’s a little bit of political theater, and maybe the judge had a bad day.”
What makes this story especially interesting, though, is appreciating just how many bad days Judge Schwab has had.