EXCLUSIVE: Biden judge preventing deportations has far-left record on criminal justice, Judiciary Committee Republicans condemn his latest ruling

A District Court judge nominated by President Joe Biden is both a registered Democrat in Massachusetts and forgot to disclose his ties to a left-wing organization that he sat on the board of during his Senate hearings.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee told the Washington Reporter that these are serious problems in the case of District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy specifically and of liberal judges more broadly.

Murphy specifically is in the news because of his ruling that the Trump administration can’t deport a group of illegal immigrants the administration called “criminal illegal immigrant monsters.”

Murphy was nominated by Biden in the final months of his term, and there was no shortage of evidence that he held far-left views on criminal justice.

Murphy was on the board of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL) where he “participated in board meetings” and “helped select MACDL’s leadership team,” according to his Senate questionnaire.

The MACDL, with Murphy’s name listed on the letterhead, wrote a letter in June 2020 that argued to “eliminate arrests for all alleged minor infractions such as using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes, as happened to George Floyd, but also for fraught and unnecessary police encounters involving possessory offenses, assault and battery, breaking and entering, and similar offenses.”

For his part, Murphy acknowledged in his questionnaire that he did not disclose the letter to the committee, claiming he did not find it in his search.

The MACDL, while Murphy was on the board, also released a statement calling to “repeal legislation that gives police officers and prosecutors immunity from civil liability” and wrote that “the word illegal…is inherently prejudicial, conjuring and activating implicit associations between race, ethnicity, otherness, and criminality.”

Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), one of the top Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, told the Reporter that the problems go well beyond just Judge Murphy.

“From one end of this country to the other, rogue Democrat federal judges are putting partisan feelings ahead of clear Constitutional authority and enlisting as the Trump resistance in robes,” he said.

Issa’s colleagues on the Judiciary Committee honed in on what they called Murphy’s history of “pro-crime activism” to the Reporter. “Judge Brian Murphy’s background and views reek of pro-crime activism, spitting in the face of 77 million Americans who demanded law and order last November,” Rep. Mark Harris (R., N.C.) said. “They did not vote for rogue judges who think they can be a roadblock to President Trump’s mission to boot out the criminal illegal aliens terrorizing our communities. Sadly, Judge Murphy’s actions reflect a broader trend on the Left: more sympathy for those who break the law than for the innocent lives shattered by their crimes.”

Rep. Lance Gooden (R., Texas) added that “Judge Murphy’s ruling obstructs President Trump’s mandate to secure our borders and swiftly deport illegal immigrants. This is unfortunately another case of liberal activist judges putting their failed agenda over the clear will of American voters.”

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded to Murphy’s ruling by saying that it “is absurd that an activist judge is trying to force the United States to bring back these uniquely barbaric monsters who are a clear and present threat to the safety of the American people.”