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San Francisco\u2019s immigration court stopped hearing cases last week, threatening to leave a major hole in California\u2019s immigration judicial system.<\/p>\n

Once one of the busiest courts in the country, the closure of the 100 Montgomery Street courthouse comes after more than a year of firings and retirements have whittled down its bench and worsened a massive case backlog.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis was a court that actually had a reputation for really strong legal reasoning,\u201d said former Judge Shira Levine, who was fired from the court by the Trump administration last year. \u201cThe judges did not all have the same perspectives. People sometimes lost their cases, people sometimes won their cases, but it was a place that upheld due process. You really see a targeting of a court that \u2026 stood for full and fair hearings in the immigration system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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