DOJ Lawyer in ICE Case Tells Judge: 'This Job Sucks"
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Anonymous
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She's not wrong. DOJ Is asking lawyers to explain why they keep violating the law.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/government-lawyer-in-ice-case-tells-judge-this-job-sucks
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Anonymous
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Sigh. Trying to defend the indefensible does tend to lead to breakdowns.
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Anonymous
| Pam Bondi fired the prosecutor today. So that’s not what she was asking for when she said her job sucks, but this Trump administration is mafia ruthless. I hope she lands on her feet sooner than later. |
Anonymous
| With all the criminal behavior going on in this administration, of course they fire the overly stressed attorney who speaks the truth. |
Anonymous
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/politics/prosecutor-immigration-outburst.html
A federal prosecutor in Minneapolis was fired from the U.S. attorney’s office on Wednesday after she expressed exasperation with the crippling case load arising from the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, according to three people familiar with the matter. In an extraordinary outburst, the prosecutor, Julie T. Le, told a judge during a hearing on Tuesday in Federal District Court in St. Paul that she and her colleagues in the local U.S. attorney’s office were completely overwhelmed by the number of cases they had been forced to handle because of the White House’s widespread immigration sweeps in Minnesota. At one point, she sardonically told the judge that she would welcome being held in contempt of court because it would allow her to get a good night’s sleep. Ms. Le’s painfully personal remarks came as the judge, Jerry W. Blackwell, was grilling her about why she and other prosecutors had ignored his orders in five separate cases to free immigrants he had determined were illegally detained by federal agents. “What do you want me to do?” Ms. Le asked the judge at one point. “The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need.” |
Anonymous
As if that's surprising? Of course. Anyone who works for DOJ who has a shred of integrity has to be ready to crack. They'll all be fired eventually, after they crack. The DOJ will be filled with nothing but Tulsi Gabbards and Lindsay Halligans. |
Anonymous
| Whisky pete Hegseth can plan a war on Signal breaking every operational security law imaginable, but the immediate firing comes to a woman who was clearly pushed beyond normal work limits and had a breakdown… |
Anonymous
Judging by the Epstein files we need piles of caseloads going after rich pedophiles. Let’s hire more prosecutors to go after THEM. I’ll take the handyman who overstayed his visa over all these pieces of shxt who deserve to burn in hell. |
Anonymous
This! She’s not the problem. |
Anonymous
That’s what MAGAs do everyday when they discuss Trump. And they’re far, far from breaking down. But alas, breaking down requires a tablespoon of integrity and a sprinkle of logic. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
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Thank you for sharing this. It is definitely a must read. That poor woman. She was only on that job four weeks without any training, guidance, help, or supervision. Her client, ICE, refusing to comply with court orders as she tried to get them to follow the law was torture. She tried to get the unlawfully detained but ICE shunned the law, repeatedly. And to top it off, she was worried about her own family being stopped and detained simply because of the color of their non-white skin. |
Anonymous
Julie Le's not defending the indefensible. She's trying to get ICE to obey the law. |
Anonymous
But she has to explain to the judge when they don’t, which is often. |
Anonymous
| At some point you can’t be a lawyer and try to defend why this administration is doing. They do not want to follow the law |