Most Americans would assume that federal judges — ostensibly some of the most important arbiters in the U.S. judiciary system — would have a pretty good grasp of the basic facts.
Things like who, what, when, where, and why are all rather important topics when presiding over any tenuous legal matter.
Alas, every once in a while, judges can apparently get those very important factoids wrong, too.
And it’s raising a lot of questions.
Eyebrows (and iPhone calendar apps) were raised on Saturday, when news broke that Texas federal judge Fred Biery (who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton) had ordered the release of a 5-year-old boy and his father from a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility.
Given the inflamed tensions surrounding
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