Ian Millhiser

How many cases a month is normal?

Do you know?

So the short answer is it depends on the complexity of the case.

You know, I've known lawyers who would spend months and months preparing for one trial, although that, you know, would be a very complex trial.

I look for professional guidelines on this.

And like the professional guidelines say that prosecutors generally shouldn't be assigned more than 150 cases in a year.

And this one was assigned 88 cases in a month.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, so that's about six or seven times more work.

She was doing the work of about a half a dozen lawyers.

And explain what Julie Lee's job is and what she said she was struggling to get done.

Yeah.

So this is like somewhat counterintuitive.

But like it turns out one of the reasons why immigrants are being treated so poorly in Minneapolis is because there aren't enough prosecutors.

And like normally you don't think of prosecutors as being a good thing for people who are being locked up.

Right.

But what's happening is a lot of these immigrants are being detained illegally.

Judges are issuing orders saying, no, no, no, no, no, you have to release this person.

There's one judge who complained that there are more than 90 court orders that the Trump administration has defied.

And it looks like a huge reason for that is that the Trump administration, like they surged law enforcement officers.