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Trump’s DHS leader Chad Wolf unlawfully in position: Federal judge

By Anna Giaritelli
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Trump’s DHS leader Chad Wolf unlawfully in position: Federal judge

A federal judge ruled Saturday that President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security has been illegally working in his position as acting secretary over the past 12 months.

Judge George Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York wrote that Wolf’s illegitimate appointment in November 2019 meant a rule he advanced this summer to cripple the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was invalid.

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