{"id":330877,"date":"2026-08-27T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330877\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:40:13","slug":"judge-jeannette-vargas-southern-new-york-u-s-district-court-the-presidential-prayer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330877\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Jeannette Vargas, Southern New York U.S. District Court\u00a0 \u2013 The Presidential Prayer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"730\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/250417-Jeannette-Vargas-730x438.jpg\" class=\"attachment-wise-post-thumb size-wise-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jeannette Vargas<br \/>\nSouthern New York U.S. District Court\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jeannette Anne Vargas was born in 1973. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. She clerked for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.\n<\/p>\n<p>Vargas served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Tax and Bankruptcy Unit. She then served as senior trial counsel and then deputy chief of the Civil Division.\n<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden nominated Vargas in March 2024 to serve as a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.\u00a0The Senate confirmed her in September 2024 and she received her judicial commission in November 2024.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-title-custom\">In the News\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas vacated an immigration policy of President Trump\u2019s administration that suspended visa processing from 75 countries from which applicants were deemed likely to require public assistance.\n<\/p>\n<p>Judge Vargas determined that the State Department policy was \u201ccontrary to law and in excess of statutory authority.\u201c She said that it \u201cruns afoul\u201c of the Immigration and Nationality Act in which Congress empowered consular officers to make visa decisions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress imbued these officers with exclusive authority and discretion to determine if an immigrant is eligible for a visa based upon review of specific and detailed criteria set forth in the statute,\u201d Judge Vargas wrote. \u201cThe Policy, which categorically prohibits the issuance of immigrant visas based upon the nationality of the applicant, represents a direct abrogation of this statutory scheme.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-title-custom\">Contact this Leader\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p>Did you pray for Judge Vargas today? You can let her know at:\n<\/p>\n<p>The Honorable Jeannette Vargas<br \/>U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York\u00a0<br \/>Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse\u00a0<br \/>500 Pearl St.\u00a0<br \/>New York, NY 10007\n<\/p>\n<p>RECENT PRAYER UPDATES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge Jeannette Vargas Southern New York U.S. District Court\u00a0 Jeannette Anne Vargas was born in 1973. She earned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-330877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}