Justice Chandra Dhari Singh observed that a case involving a poor worker took more than two decades to decide, and that the delay left him in a state of profound uncertainty.
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As employers across the country started 2021 with optimism for a better year, E-Verify was stuck in 2020, experiencing a short period of technical trouble. The site was down unexpectedly from Monday, January 5 at 1:53 PM EST until Tuesday, January 6 at 8:06 PM EST. Both the Web Services and Direct Access portals were affected.
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E-Verify was first authorized by Congress in 1996, allowing employers to electronically confirm their employees’ employment eligibility to work in the United States. E-Verify employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees by electronically matching the information provided by employees on the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, against records available to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
courtroom. huffing post justice reporter calls the public defender system sequestration s biggest victim. it creates an unequal system, federal public defenders going on furloughed days and going up against federal prosecutors. the western district of texas in february the public defender s office faced a 9% pay cut. in march the office was notified it had to cut an additional 14%. the result? case delays, layoffs for a third of the defenders and a 10% salary reduction on top. meanwhile, the number of cases isn t letting up. it s projected to top 13,000 this year. and you see sort of multiple layers of injustice, where people are funneled into a system because they don t have economic opportunities. then once they re in the system they don t have adequate defense because there is insufficient spending for the public defenders that would provide them with adequate defense in that system. reporter: the real impact on the ground isn t shared either.
justice. in march, sequestration swept 350 million dollars out from under the courts. defender services are already 0r79ing under $51 million shortfall this year alone and public defenders facing double and triple the cuts as their opponents across the courtroom. ryan riley calls the public defender system sequestration s biggest victim. it essentially creates an unequal system. federal public defenders with their going on for limit series going up against federal prosecutors. reporter: take the western district of texas. in february, the public defender s office there faced a 9% pay cut and then in march the office was notified it would have to cut its budget by an ishl 14%. the result? case delays. layoffs for a third of the defenders and a 10% salary reduction on top. meanwhile, the number of case isn t letting up. it s projected to top 13,000 this year.