Washington Post: Every year, Donoso Stevenshaddenied asylum in more than half the applications that came before her, a recordconsistently in line with national averages. She hadn’t resisted case quotas imposed by the first Trump administration and seldom took sick leave. She never fell behind on her docket.
But on that morning in Northern Virginia, she feared none of it mattered. By then, Donoso Stevens said, another supervisor had already ordered her to reverse four rulings at the direction of unidentified “higher-ups,” a violation of judicial authority she once considered inconceivable. The interference, she said, had only escalated since…