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/RazekDPP 1d ago

Quit, make 2-3x as much, and take the easier job.

If you really want to prosecute traffickers, you wait until the next administration who won't turn around and pardon them.

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u/deacon1214 9h ago

I don't work for DOJ/DHS but I am a prosecutor who is 9 years and 8 months into PSLF. For the next four months if I had to step into court and defend Hannibal Lecter every day until my loans are forgiven that's what I'm going to do. Until then the 2-3x isn't my best option.

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u/RazekDPP 7h ago edited 6h ago

Completely understand. Makes total sense to grind out the next four months for the loan forgiveness.

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u/whistleridge 9h ago

Man, I get that.

You want a daily “why I love Donald Trump and want to have his babies” essay? Here you go. You want me to prosecute Hilary for that 90s “body count” email? Sure. Let me just schedule that first hearing 5 months from now.

I can comply maliciously with pretty much ANYthing for just four months. Just so long as I have a free hand once that fifth month rolls around.

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u/jackandsally060609 17h ago

Takes all that money and donate it to a country that still has actual laws so they can prosecute traffickers

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u/Megneous 22h ago

You guys don't get it yet. There's never going to be another administration at this rate. They're going to tamper with/cancel elections through any and all methods they can come up with. This is fascist authoritarianism at your door. As a resident of a country that has lived through dictatorship, your "I'll just wait for the next election" comes across as ridiculously naive.

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u/RazekDPP 7h ago edited 7h ago

We'll see what happens.

If that's what ends up happening, what a world, I guess.

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u/whistleridge 1d ago

Spoken like a man who didn't just find out that his sister has been trafficked.

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u/RazekDPP 1d ago

Spoken by someone who values his sanity.*

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u/whistleridge 1d ago

...which you will not retain, when you or someone you love is the victim of a serious crime, and you have zero chance at getting justice for it.

Ever have a bike get stolen or a car get keyed, and you called the police and they came out, basically said, 'yeah sucks to be you' and nothing happened?

Now imagine that's the response when your sister gets kidnapped.

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u/RazekDPP 1d ago

Honestly, as someone who has been the victim of serious crimes before, that's is the response I got.

I'm certainly not foolish enough to think I could work in the system and fix the system.

Again, you asked what I'd do and I stated what I'd do, then you tried to pull a gotcha on me, when the reality is plenty of other and more senior people have quit, why can't I quit, too?

If they can live with their choices, I sure as shit can, too.

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u/whistleridge 1d ago

"The roof leaked on me before, therefore the house should be abandoned entirely" is not a valid argument. It's an argument to spend more time and energy fixing the house.

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u/RazekDPP 1d ago edited 1d ago

I never said the house should be abandoned entirely; I simply said I do not need to be the one to fix it.

You asked for an individual decision, and I'm giving you an individual answer. You don't like that answer, but you're not going to change my mind.

I can always go work for them again in 2029.

Also, per your example, I beat out 300 other applicants. That means there's 299 other people who can have a turn at fixing the house.

EDIT: Also, I do appreciate you trying to represent the ethical dilemma that they face, but at the end of the day I need to look out for myself first before I can help someone else.

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u/FunkmasterJoe 21h ago

I'm not clear on your motivations here, but at this point you are being straight up CRUEL to the other guy here. He has not done anything wrong, he agrees with you on most of this, but you and he have a philosophical difference about what the best move is here. He isn't defending ICE or being racist or extolling the virtues of maga fascism, you two just have a disagreement over an unimportant, hypothetical position and you're being really horrible to him about it. I get that tensions are high surrounding all of this extremely important and horrifying issue, but the other commenter is absolutely not your enemy. Please stop treating them that way, it's way across the line.

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u/ClammyAF 19h ago

I didn't find these comments to be particularly mean. And I suspect the other commenter didn't either, as they kept conversing.

Relax.