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- politics@lemmy.world
A lawyer working with the Minnesota attorney’s office said she just wants some sleep, after working so hard to try to get ICE to follow court orders.
“I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” Le said. “The system sucks, this job sucks, I am trying with every breath I have to get you what I need.”
Edit clarification: This attorney works for the federal government, not the State of Minnesota.
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Even fascists need rest.
Le said that the government was “overwhelmed” by the legal challenges to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, and that trying to get ICE to comply with court orders has required nonstop work for an office depleted by resignations.
Exactly the child rapist’s intent.
This is what became of Bannon’s “stress test” after they had 4 years to iterate on it.
Le normally doesn’t work for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She used to work as an attorney for ICE in immigration court, and last month volunteered to help prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office deal with the many habeas petitions from immigrants in ICE detention seeking their release.
Maybe don’t work for a criminal organization and volunteer for more?
I’m guessing, assuming the best intentions, she’s volunteering because otherwise the detainees would have no progress in their cases.
It’s not as if ICE is going to stop kidnapping people if they [the DOJ] run out of lawyers.
Staying on and trying to make the system work sounds like the most moral option to me. It also sounds fruitless.
Edit: This article doesn’t have a ton of detail, and it’s pretty hard for an outsider with no legal background (like me) to understand what the players involved are trying to do. These stories have some more details:
MPR News: ICE attorney to judge: ‘This job sucks’
See also OP’s comment.
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Le is described as a volunteer. I don’t know if that means she’s getting paid or not. She is working to get ICE to comply with court orders to release people. My guess is that if everyone in her position were to resign in protest, ICE would just ignore the courts completely, and wouldn’t release anyone at all anymore.
This is an attack, a deliberate stratagem, by the executive, on the justice system, and it sounds to me like Julie Le is caught up in that attack, not a perpetrator of it.
I think the problem is her not properly informing the judge WHY she is being stonewalled or ignored by her company. The judge holding her in contempt is probably not going to do anything because ICE doesn’t give a fuck. So she should name names who WILL give a fuck so that they will be held in contempt.
If she stays on and the federal court holds her in contempt and punishes her, maybe Donald will pardon her, so she still gets her money. So no, it’s not moral.
What could she do? She could say what exactly the feds are doing wrong, for example, with federal officers’ names and dates and details. Create the record. She could refuse to file motions supporting the feds. Then the people would win those uncontested cases. Those would be relatively moral. But she made it about herself, and that’s hogwash.
She could say what exactly the feds are doing wrong, for example, with federal officers’ names and dates and details. Create the record.
My guess is that the ICE and DHS people who are breaking the law have figured out not to tell the attorneys this stuff, for precisely this reason. The attorneys have a duty of candor to the court, but ICE does not.
She could refuse to file motions supporting the feds.
She may already be doing this, at least with respect to 100% dilatory motions. I haven’t kept up with her case work.
Then the people would win those uncontested cases.
In this case, and in many others like it in MN, the petitioners already won their case. They’ve been ordered to be released, but they aren’t getting released in a timely manner.
When a judge issues a release order, it is the responsibility of the federal attorney to communicate the contents of that order into the federal bureaucracy, to ensure it is carried out. That process has turned into an all-consuming job, because that’s how ICE wants it.
I agree in general, though, that the only ethical or moral move here is to resign.
No but I was replying to her complaining that she found the job terrible and tiring: she kinda signed up for it. So ya know… Cry me a fucking river…
Ah; but what she wants to do is be found in contempt, so all the immigrants go free and ICE stays tied up in court. It’s an interesting strategy.
Blackwell said that he called the hearing to stress that ICE and other government agencies are not above the law.
They’re not? Could have fooled me.
So quit the job or quit your bitching. You’re working for fascists and deserve to suffer by doing it.
Yes, just quit and let the job be picked up by a trump appointment person. Wcgw
No, they need to stay inside the system and dismantle it from within.
Rip out the organs of the capitalist beast she’s within, and gnaw at the heart of corruption.
Dismantling the master’s house with the master’s tools is a fruitless endeavor
Sucks to be on the sucky side
Should have joined your fellows that resigned
Good
This is FAKE News! If she DIDNT want to Defend People who FINGER BLAST CHILDREN Before auctioning them to Rich Men she would have Resigned!
