A federal judge ruled that Ken Cuccinelli was illegally appointed to lead a top immigration post last year and invalidated some of his directives
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Cuccinelli was illegally appointed by the Trump administration to head U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services , according to a 55-page rulingissued Sunday by Judge Randolph Moss of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., an Obama-appointed judge. Moss also found that a directive launched under Cuccinelli, which hastens screening time for asylum seekers, should also be voided.
President Donald Trump tapped Cuccinelli to lead USCIS — the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that manages the country’s legal immigration system — in June 2019. Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general, was later named as acting DHS deputy secretary, making in the second most senior appointed official in the department.
During his time at USCIS, Cuccinelli aggressively pushed the president’s immigration agenda. While he no longer leads the day-to-day operations at the agency, he is still listed as the “Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Director,” on the USCIS website.
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