Barbara McQuade
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Feb
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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.
among legal jobs.
They're highly competitive.
It's very difficult to get these.
They are the dream job for many people.
But the idea that we've seen so many of the AUSAs in Minnesota resign rather than do the kind of work they're being asked to do.
And I think the example you just gave of this lawyer who has the judge to please hold me in contempt just so I can get some rest.
Right.
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,
won't provide her with information.
She's trying to get information about detainees.
She can't find out where they are.
Just when she finds out where they are, she later finds out that they got moved an hour before she filed her brief, unbeknownst to her.
And so it is the kind of thing that I can imagine is incredibly aggravating for assistant U.S.
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