Johnson Law & Consulting

  • When Soft Pressure Hardens

    When Soft Pressure Hardens

    Honored to contribute to the ABA’s Judge’s Journal – one of the nation’s foremost judicial journals and the authoritative source on innovations in the justice system. Read my essay about the need for a strong and independent immigration court. Pressure, pushing down on me, pressing down on you. —David Bowie…

  • The Practitioner’s Companion

    The Practitioner’s Companion

    As a Senior Advisor with AfghanEvac, I had the opportunity to create a a practitioner’s companion to their country-conditions and program-context report Protection Promised. This practical guide is for immigration attorneys and accredited representatives who are using Protection Promised as country-conditions and program-context evidence. It connects that record to the…

  • Get It Right

    Get It Right

    Last April I had an opportunity to speak with Ali Rogan on the PBS News Hour. Ali Rogan: President Trump has pursued an aggressive agenda of deportations and detentions since taking office. How did that political agenda impact the work that you and your colleagues were doing in the courts?…

  • What’s Next

    What’s Next

    originally published in The Border Chronicle “Welcome to the United States.” Those were the last words I spoke from the bench. Elevated above the courtroom floor, my black robe fell just above my ankles, where my canary-yellow clogs peeked out—a small indulgence of personality in a room built for uniformity…

  • Brief Writing

    Brief Writing

    Johnson Law & Consulting can draft your brief. Johnson Law & Consulting has drafted winning legal briefs addressing asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. Johnson Law & Consulting also has experience drafting legal briefs addressing procedural issues, crimmigration, and fraud and misrepresentation. Below…

  • Deportation Judges

    Deportation Judges

    Originally published Justice Connection Substack. New immigration judges are going through a crash course that instructs them to only grant asylum in rare circumstances, an instruction that’s nowhere to be found in the law. The two-week training plus one week of observation is not nearly sufficient for these attorneys –…