"A DHS Attorney in Minnesota who said yesterday in front of a judge that it was like "pulling teeth" in order to get the government and her own agency to follow the law and obey court orders is apparently feeling the immediate wrath of the Trump administration, and has reportedly been removed from her post in opaque fashion."
"A local news reporter attending an immigration hearing captured some truly jaw-dropping quotes from the intensely frustrated attorney Julie Le, who was being grilled at the hearing by U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell over the federal government's persistent failures to acknowledge or obey court orders in Minnesota, part of a wider federal trend of ignoring judge's rulings."
"Le, according to an NBC News review of court records, had been assigned up to 88 cases in less than a month despite not feeling properly trained for the role, even as she watched numerous other prosecutors (and DOJ officials and her own co-counsel) in the U.S. Attorney's office in Minnesota quit in protest of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, or resign in the face of impossible levels of overwork."
"Le's response was an instant classic: "The system sucks. This job sucks. I wish you could hold me in contempt so that I could get 24 hours of sleep.""
A DHS attorney in Minnesota told a judge that getting DHS, ICE and the Justice Department to follow court orders felt like "pulling teeth." The attorney, Julie Le, said the system and the job "suck" and asked to be held in contempt to get rest. Le was removed from her post shortly after the comments. Court records show she had been assigned up to 88 cases in under a month and felt insufficiently trained. Numerous prosecutors, DOJ officials and co-counsel in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota have resigned or quit amid overwork and in protest of federal agent killings.
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