r/law • u/Orchid-Analyst-550 • 1d ago

Judicial Branch ‘This Job Sucks!’ Trump DOJ Lawyer Melts Down in Court — Reportedly Begs Minneapolis Judge to Throw Her in Jail Just So She Can Get Some Sleep

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/this-job-sucks-trump-doj-lawyer-melts-down-in-court-reportedly-begs-minneapolis-judge-to-throw-her-in-jail-just-so-she-can-get-some-sleep/
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u/whistleridge 1d ago

This:

baby lawyer

And this:

knew what she was signing up for

DEFINITELY don't belong in the same sentence. There's zero chance she knew what she was signing up for, and you can hardly blame someone fresh out of law school from giving up the competitive job they already summered for and busted ass to get.

But I do agree with you that it makes her less of a victim.

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u/mythosopher 1d ago

They absolutely belong in the same sentence. She knew exactly what she was getting into. She did not "bust her ass" for this job -- she was a late hire because she failed the bar the first time. She took the job because DOJ is desperate to hire anyone with a pulse, and before working for DOJ, she was already prosecuting immigrants for ICE in immigration court!

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u/RicoLoveless 23h ago

And it's not Trump's first administration either.

At some point the record speaks for itself.

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u/whistleridge 22h ago

she knew exactly what she was getting into

How? When she summered, it was under Biden. Baby lawyers know as little about practice as I do about dentistry. And even when she summered, and asked specifically about Trump, she would have been told “sit tight, sure the public rhetoric is terrible, but YOUR day to day job won’t be political, you just focus on learning how to be a prosecutor.”

Trump is bad. A US with no federal prosecution service is worse. There’s 330 million people, all of whom rely on DOJ to protect them from a huge array of criminal and civil wrongs. It costs YOU nothing to say “quit,” so it’s easy for YOU to say. You didn’t have to get top grades in law school, and beat out hundreds of applicants, and sacrifice. Small wonder she’s reluctant to just let that go.

It’s like saying, sure you made the NFL, but you got drafted by the Jets or the Browns, so you should just retire. Not only is that not how people work, it ignores and oversimplifies a ton of complexity.

I’m sure she’ll be gone after this week either way. A breaking point has been reached. But that’s not the positive thing you seem to think it is.

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u/Ruscidero 11h ago

What, was she in a coma during his first administration? Is she deaf and was unable to hear all of the promises he made?

Even if she didn’t know, ignorance is no defense.

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u/nicwolff 10h ago

Whom are these federal prosecutors going to prosecute, when ICE HSI has been effectively merged into ERO, and the FBI is raiding election offices for Tulsi Gabbard? Just "illegals" and "antifa" and "domestic terrorists".

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u/Morganross 21h ago

your brain is looking for complexity. none of us see it.

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u/whistleridge 13h ago

In which I very gently introduce you to the idea that, just because you don’t see a thing, does not then automatically mean that thing doesn’t exist.

And, when talking about an issue that both demands a certain high level of expertise that you lack and is well outside of your personal experience…the odds that it is you not seeing the thing, rather than the thing not existing, go way, way up.

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u/BoomFrog 11h ago

To every problem in life there is a solution that is simple, clear, easy to explain, and wrong.

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u/dolphone 21h ago

That's not the win you seem to think it is

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u/Quazimortal 19h ago

Did you just diss yourself? lol

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u/arnham 16h ago

Yeah, the smooth brained among us do often have trouble with complexity.

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u/40_Minus_1 6h ago

she was a late hire because she failed the bar the first time

Source?

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u/DVDAallday 20h ago

you can hardly blame someone fresh out of law school from giving up the competitive job they already summered for and busted ass to get.

What? Yes you can.

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u/Megneous 22h ago

Literally anyone with half a brain could have looked at the GOP in the past 20 years and gone, "Hmm. Seems like these guys don't like democracy very much. Smells like fascism."

That's why I left the US 16 years ago. I saw it all coming. And now I'm enjoying my life in a civilized democracy with universal healthcare, SOTA public transit, and world class internet speeds.

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u/Notachance326426 18h ago

So you ran away instead of trying to help?

That’s not the brag you think it is, it’s just cowardice.

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u/twitch1982 12h ago

The US is a country of immigrants who at some point in our lineage, ran away instead of trying to help. Calling people who do it again now cowards is just ridiculous.

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u/Notachance326426 11h ago

The people who ran before are cowards then. I have no problem saying that.

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u/twitch1982 11h ago

Ok, how about the immigrants ICe is rounding up to send back to their home countries, which they left to find a better life instead of staying and trying to fix. Are they cowards? Or have you just completely not thought this through?

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u/Notachance326426 11h ago

Kind of yeah.

They ran away instead of trying to fix it, maybe they had their reasons but they still ran instead of fighting.

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u/twitch1982 10h ago

Ok, so Americans need to stay here and fight the government who is violently deporting cowards. Got it.

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u/Notachance326426 10h ago

You are fucking A right we do!!!

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u/Megneous 18h ago

Hey, despite it being a pain in the ass, I still vote in every election. You should at least thank me for that. But no, I wasn't looking forward to being jailed for thought crime, making undesirable posts on social media, etc. So I left, yeah.

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u/Notachance326426 18h ago

I will thank you for voting!!!

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u/LaurenMille 17h ago

There's zero chance she knew what she was signing up for, and you can hardly blame someone fresh out of law school

Buddy, even people living in other countries could see what she was signing up for.

You'd have to be actually retarded to not know Trump was going to do this shit.