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Alex Wagner

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Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

But I mean, when you screw over the people that need to be helping you and the people whose files and evidence you need, that's probably going to hamstring the FBI's investigation, no?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I would think so.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

What's the timeline, do you think, for this investigation?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, I can't remember.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, with high-profile cases like this, what kind of month turnaround are we looking at?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Something tells me it's not going to be done on an expeditious timeline.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Yeah.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, there's one thing that I find very hard to swallow and that it just sounds like, you know, first of all, the trauma itself was so profound, right?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Renee Good is shot through a windshield and killed in front of her family.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

And then her family, her widow, is now the...

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

focus of a federal investigation which is also known as a federal smear campaign right and and the government has so much power in this scenario and yet renee good at the family of renee good has so few has very little recourse to seek justice from the federal government and from from ice why first of all why is that

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Why did Congress not pass a law that matched the law that was passed in the post in the Reconstruction era?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Right.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

That was actually the op-ed by two law professors this week who suggested that Congress should pass something called the Renee Good Civil Rights Act, basically to account for the gaping hole that exists in our judicial system, which makes it very impossible, I should say, in this day and age to sue federal officers for wrongdoing.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, so that would just be an act of Congress.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

So simple, so easy, Leah.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Oh, my Lord.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Okay.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, that then gets me to a sort of a big question here, because you've said to a number of answers, you have invoked the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

And I think the lowest court in my estimation, but seriously, girl preach.