One-third of DC judges not born in US, have no experience before appointment – Report

One-third of Washington, DC, judges were not born in the United States and have no experience prior to their appointment.

This is according to a Gateway Pundit report.

In an article published on Tuesday, the report showed that of 15 active judges in DC districts, five were not born in the US.

“There are 15 active DC District Judges. Of these, five were not born in the US, including judges born in Jamaica, India, Uruguay, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago,” the report stated.

According to the report, the development is an aberration from the 1980s, when it was required that appointed judges be born in the US.

The report further blamed former US presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for appointing non-US-born judges from 2014 to 2021.

“But starting in 2014, former President Barack Obama appointed Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan, born in Kingston.

“Also appointed Judge Amit P. Mehta to the D.C. court. Mehta also had no previous experience as a judge. Mehta was born in Patan, Gujarat, India.

“The other three foreign-born judges were nominated by former President Joe Biden.

“Judge Ana Cecilia Reyes was nominated in 2021, also with no prior experience as a judge. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and moved to Spain,” the report reads.

This comes amid several legal oppositions to President Donald Trump's administration policy.

Recall that barely a week ago, District Judge, Ana Reyes in Washington temporarily stopped the US military from enforcing President Trump’s executive order barring transgender people from military service.

Also, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in a judgement on Saturday, 15 March, stopped Trump's administration from deporting Venezuelan nationals.

Last month, a California federal court stopped the US Department of Defence and other agencies from carrying out mass layoffs amid efforts to cut the cost of governance.