New Jersey disciplinary authorities want to strip Municipal Judge Britt J. Simon of his bench for bringing up immigration and deportation during three truancy cases, a move they say created an appearance of ethnic and socioeconomic bias. Simon sees it differently. He says a broken enforcement system for truancy left him with few options, and his remarks were a product of that dysfunction, not prejudice.
The case, first reported by the New Jersey Law Journal, lays bare a collision between judicial discipline and the political minefield of immigration enforcement, a minefield that state and local officials increasingly refuse to cross, even when the law might demand it.
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