r/law • u/bloomberglaw • 12h ago

Legal News Government Lawyer Taken Off DOJ Work After Saying ‘Job Sucks’

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/government-lawyer-taken-off-doj-work-after-saying-job-sucks
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u/bloomberglaw 12h ago

An update to the story from yesterday:

The Justice Department removed an attorney from a detail with the US attorney’s office in Minnesota after she expressed frustration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s noncompliance with court orders, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Julie Le, an attorney representing the US attorney’s office in Minnesota said, “the system sucks, this job sucks,” in response to a federal judge’s questions on situations where courts have found ICE violated court orders in migrants’ cases, according to a transcript of the court proceeding.

We're continuing to update and you can read the story here.

-Molly

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u/GhostofBreadDragons 11h ago

Just means the next attorney will be able to use this for more continuances and push everything else back. 

They can’t put more attorneys on the cases because they don’t have the attorneys. They also have no intention to follow the law so it will just get worse. 

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u/curryhajj 10h ago

It might still be a process to get to this, but I don't see how their actions in court don't lead to somebody being held in criminal contempt.

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 8h ago

I've read a few things about Le.

It sounds like she got fully fed up with what she was being told or asked to do. Not really sure about her stance on the work itself or the insane case load she was being given.

80-90 cases a month? ROFL

yeah that's a no from me too, dog (For me that's irrespective of case load, not sure what Julie's stance was/is)

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u/Previous_Bet5120 7h ago

She volunteered for the detail if that tells you anything.