Barbara McQuade

Well, in most U.S. attorneys' offices there are no military lawyers whatsoever. But you do see these JAG attorneys, who are military lawyers, sometimes get appointed as special assistant U.S. attorneys on military bases. So, for example, crimes that occur at Fort Knox.

Kiitos.

They have the authority, Michael, to show up in any court around the country, but typically that is how they are used in most cases, because in most U.S. attorneys' offices you have career-trained professional people who handle the day-to-day cases that relate to civilian offenses.

Kuulostat muutaman asian, Mikael. Yksi on kulttuuriset asiat järjestämisestä järjestäjyydestä ja voimakkaudesta. Ehkä järjestäjyydet voivat edistää, mutta myös koulutus näyttää tällaisella tavalla. Järjestäjyydet ovat hyvinkin koulutettuja, he ovat tehokkaita ihmisiä ja he voivat käsitellä heidän työtään.

But that work is different from what occurs in civilian courts. I think the great example you just gave was this ICE lawyer who got assigned over as a special assistant U.S. attorney to handle the work of the U.S. attorney's office. Now certainly if they've gone from 70 AUSAs to 17, they are in crisis mode. And Michael, just to emphasize, I know you know this, but your viewers, the job of an assistant U.S. attorney is a really coveted legal position. Mm-hmm.

Tämä on erittäin vaarallista. Se on hyvin vaarallista. Se on hyvin vaarallista saada niitä. Ne ovat monien ihmisten unelmaa. Mutta se idea, että me olemme nähneet niin monia AUSA-alueita Minnesotassa pysyä puolestaan, kuin tehdä sellaista työtä, jota heidän on pystytty tekemään. Ja luulen, että esimerkki, jonka sinä aiemmin annait, on se, että jäi jäi, jotta minun pitäisi pysyä pysyvälläni, jotta voin saada vähän loppua.

It is really indicative of what's happening there. One is just being overworked, I think is one thing. Another, though, one of the things, I read the entire transcript that you quoted from, and she talks about how she is trying very hard to provide the court with the information it has requested, but her client, ICE...

Ei anna hänet tietoa. Hän yrittää saada tietoa huolimatta huolimatta huolimatta huolimatta huolimatta huolimatta huolimatta huolimatta huolimatta

Kiitos.

I am done. I am not going to participate in that. So for all of those reasons, we are seeing these career-trained professional assistant use attorneys leave and now being replaced by people who will, I'm sure, try their hardest to do their job well, but just lack the training and experience to do this particular kind of work. I think we're just going to see more of this kind of thing.

It's really disturbing to see what was just a year ago the crown jewel of our federal government, the Department of Justice, just run into the ground. I think there are a number of options. One is you can impeach Pam Bondi and put an attorney general in place who upholds the standards of the Department of Justice. One of the things that this judge complained of is to say,

Of course the executive branch can enforce immigration law. That's what you do. But you can't have such a huge operation where you're arresting so many people that you don't have the ability to process them and give them the due process the constitution requires.

So it's not just what they're doing, but how they are doing it. And so next week, Pam Bondi will be appearing before a congressional committee, I think, asking her some of these questions and exposing this to the public. You know, Minnesota was not in crisis until the federal government created one. And so I think that for the public to understand what's happening there and who's at fault there is something that Congress has a role in playing and revealing to the public.

It is so profoundly wrong and it makes me not only upset and angry, but very sad.

I spent almost 20 years of my life working for the Department of Justice during a time when it was the North Star that you do not use federal prosecution to go after political rivals.

There is a provision in the

the Justice Department manual that says prosecutors may never consider partisan politics, political association, political party, political office, in making a charging decision.

And it seems that Pam Bondi is turning that on its head.

Now, it's a norm.

It's not a law.