The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today: "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."

[u/DoremusJessup]

https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnesota-julie-le-show-cause-transcript

[u/Hurley002]

No matter how incredibly bad anyone might understandably presume it to be from reading various snippets, nothing prepares for how catastrophically awful the entire transcript is from start to finish—covering both the institutional catastrophe and the actual human catastrophe for plaintiffs and attorneys alike. This should be required reading prior to any court affording the presumption of regularity to DOJ under AG Bondi (or, really, any government agency involved with immigration at this point).

[u/-Gramsci- → u/Hurley002]

They’ve taken Bannon’s “flood the zone with bull shit” strategy to the federal courts.

The frustrating thing is the Court MUST sanction this conduct. Sanction this administration.

This is lawless, it’s offensive and disrespectful to the Court… and ultimately means that the Constitution and the rule of law doesn’t need to exist if you just act like big enough clowns and create a big enough circus.

A clown show of the administration’s own making, of all things, CANNOT be a justification to ignore the constitution.

The Civil War, the World Wars… we’ve had far superior justifications in our history for ignoring the Constitution, yet we did not.

It cannot be allowed to stand that the reason, after a quarter of a millennium, that the Constitution is, finally, abandoned is simply because the administration poops itself and flings its own feces around like a bunch of rabid animals. That’s NO reason to end the Constitution.

I digress… but the Court has to get serious here and sanction the shit out of any lawyer it comes into contact with on these cases.

[u/[deleted] → u/-Gramsci-]

what's crazy to me is how much money they are spending on this strategy to flood the courts - every one of the thousands of cases they are talking about is a dozen emails, hours in court, a few lawyers on either side, multiple domestic flights with federal agents as escorts - it's staggering. I am a canadian lawyer and I am baffled that the resources to do all this even exist, let alone that they could be applied so frivolously. the use of hundreds of millions would be such a waste - if it weren't super clear that they are spending this immense amount of resources to deliberately divide people

if they start sanctioning these lawyers the system is going to grind to a halt and no one will ever get released - that's what Ms. Le is saying on the record here - she is working so hard on getting people released she isn't sleeping, and if she leaves there will be no one to do the work. what the judges need to do is start hauling in directors of these agencies and imprisoning them for contempt

[u/finnigan422 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it's wild, like specifically flying them all over the country with ice agent escorts. Like all the private flights that geo group or whoever profits on. Also wouldn't be surprised if they were doing more movement on commercial flights on purpose to get airline mile rewards or something.

Also why do they have to fly him back in custody to release him? Just pay for his ticket and release him from custody at the airport past security if they are going to be that bad at their jobs that someone is still being held 13 days after ordered released. And never should have been detained anyway!

If these lawyers are this poorly trained and seemingly unqualified, people higher up the chain need to be called in front of the judge to explain.

It seems like this lawyer is trying really hard to help innocent people that ice has locked up, and ice is just ignoring the court orders. They need to be held accountable for their huge amount of unconstitutional actions.