In a widely praised decision by the immigration bar, Attorney General Holder vacated former Attorney General Mukasey’s decision in Matter of Compean in which Mukasey held that there was no constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in removal proceedings. Matter of Compean, 25 I&N Dec. 1 (A.G. June 3, 2009). Mukasey’s lengthy decision is now vacated in its entirety.