Gobsmacking Legal Stupidity, MTAHNS Edition

President Obama's DoJ is arguing in court that three-year old children are able to represent themselves in immigration proceedings.

A senior Justice Department official is arguing that 3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in court, staking out an unconventional position in a growing debate over whether immigrant children facing deportation are entitled to taxpayer-funded attorneys.

Jack H. Weil, a longtime immigration judge who is responsible for training other judges, made the assertion in sworn testimony in a deposition in federal court in Seattle.

That is incredulous beyond belief. That has to be the stupidest assertion made by a single judge outside of his own courtroom since the Great Pants Suit.*
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*The Rubber-Stamp FISA Court notwithstanding.