Eliza Orlins

So, you know, for people who don't know what's going on, basically, the Minnesota state officials who were trying to look into these, you know, these murders, they said that they didn't have access to key evidence after these fatal shootings because.

The feds took control of these investigations and wouldn't share evidence with state prosecutors.

And so, you know, this is playing out in the courts because essentially Mary Moriarty had to go to the courts.

And I think this is also playing out in California where they're saying they're going to fight federal obstruction.

But but essentially they.

they had to get a court order saying that, uh, they, Mary Moriarty filed a lawsuit against, it was DHS, ICE, CBP, Kristi Noem, and I guess attorney general Pam Bondi, I think were the named parties basically saying that, um,

they wanted they they wanted uh the court to to make a ruling to say that we have we are entitled to you know you can't just take this evidence and hide it from us we're entitled to hold our elected officials and appointed you know members of the federal government politically accountable we are allowed to challenge this in court we have you know all of this stuff and it's just

It's insane that they're needing basically lawsuits.

They're needing to file in court to get these to get this evidence.

But, yeah, the feds are actively hindering these state investigations and it makes it extremely difficult for state prosecutors to get the truth.

And so, yeah.

you know, attorney state attorneys general.

So like Keith Ellison in Minnesota, other folks have have said they're going to push back and they're going to litigate this in court if they have to.

But it's really outrageous that they are actively hindering state investigations.

Yeah.

And you know what's unbelievable?

So like, you know, I obviously, I'm a...

kind of an outlier because I do think I have pretty extreme positions on law enforcement generally, but that's, you know, obviously comes from the experience of public defending for 15 years and like watching body worn camera where I know that body worn camera doesn't stop abuses.

And I literally have watched police officers who have their cameras on just beat the shit out of my clients, just be completely abusive and just horrific.

And so I acknowledge my biases, but I think what's unbelievable