SOUNDS LIKE A CRAZY IDEA, BUT HEY: Wait, Maybe Judges Shouldn’t Work for the Prosecutors After All. “Of all the many oddities and unfairness baked into administrative proceedings, the one most surprising to casual observers (read—my wife), is the fact that many administrative law judges (ALJs) are employed by the same agency prosecuting alleged violations of law in front of them. Indeed, in the bizarre world of administrative law, one must get used to the notion that the judge works for the prosecutor. But still, we pretend that there is nothing wrong with this setup. A new decision by the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, however, has provided some much-needed sanity to this discussion and concluded the obvious, ‘[I]t is beyond question that judges may not adjudicate cases involving’ an agency that is even ‘their prospective employer[].'”