I do not feel bad for this lady AT ALL, as humorous as this is. She should quit with the rest of her office.
This scene plays endlessly in my mind these days.
lol…asking the judge to hold her in contempt so she could grab a few hours of sleep for a change. For me that would be a sign that I’m not going to work there any longer. She should get out and when they can’t find anyone to argue the government’s side justice will then prevail.
The problem is, if she exits now, what sane firm would hire her?
The only way to turn around what professional reputation this job is branding her with would be to not just leave but publicly burn the bridge as she goes. Just moving on for “Greener pastures” is too soft, she’d have to make a stand about how this is unacceptable and has been for a while, how she can’t stay silent anymore and vigorously seeks to oppose the regime. Trouble there is, the longer she stays, especially after it’s known that she doesn’t LIKE the job, the more fake that turn will look. It’ll still probably come off as fake, especially if her actions don’t commit to a follow through, but it’s the only chance.
Otherwise the bootlickers will see her as a failure and the sane would see her as a collaborator. And honestly, good. Her career SHOULD be ruined, her future SHOULD be bleak. Fascists shouldn’t be allowed to just give a wide eyed “I’m sowwy” and get their life back.
What sane firm would hire anyone who stays on to toe the line being fed out by this Justice Department? She could immediately about face and start supporting victims who have been disappeared…not much money in it but you can sleep at night.
Every firm would hire for that. Every lawyer has made a career of defending guilty people at one point or another. Law firms know this, and would want to hire someone who will deliver in that kind of environment.
According to FOX9’s Paul Blume, when U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell pressed DOJ lawyer Julie Le why the Trump administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, are ignoring so many court orders, Le replied that “the system sucks, this job sucks” — and went on to ask Blackwell to hold her in contempt of court, just so she could get 24 hours of sleep after having to argue dozens upon dozens of habeas cases in recent weeks.
“It will take enormous work to build a new DOJ that reflects our best traditions once we drive this regime out at the polls.”
Yeah I’m sure this will work as long as Citizens United stands.
Fuck the DOJ we don’t need it.
Yes, but… Keep going.
Fuck the US government we don’t need it.
I kinda feel bad for this lady. I mean, we don’t know why she’s kept such a terrible job (is it the benefits for a sick kiddo, or she’s trying but the economy is shit, or something else entirely). Not everyone has the luxury to up and quit a job.
Nah, the more she suffers the less she’s able to do her job and inflict suffering on many other people (including sick kids, btw). This is good news.
Not The Onion, if only it were.
Maybe I didn’t sleep enough or something, but I did not understand half of it.
A Trumpist DOJ person said the quit part out loud, of what? Is it critical of business as usual (i.e. pre-Trump) or critical of Trumpist breakdown of rule of law?
Not a Trumpist is kind of the point. The attorney is unhappy about defending law-breaking.
Thx
