Julie Lee

Judge Blackwell says to the government lawyers, there's no excuse to say that you don't have the staff to deal with this huge influx of habeas cases, because it was the government that decided to do all these immigration raids, with apparently no plan for how to deal with them in the court system.

Ms.

Lee is Julie Lee, an attorney for ICE.

She presents some documents to the judge and starts talking.

She explains that it's been kind of a mess.

Like she has two different government email accounts now, but could only access one.

Some of the court's orders were going to the other email that she couldn't access.

She's spending hours and hours just not even doing the job, just trying to figure out how to do the job.

The Oscar case is the main one discussed in the transcript.

The details of it are particularly troubling to the judge.

Oscar is apprehended on January 10th in Minneapolis, where he lives.

Five days later, on the 15th, the court ordered him to be immediately released.

But by then, this is very common, Oscar had been flown all the way from Minnesota to a detention facility in Texas.

The judge, when ordering his immediate release on the 15th, required an update to be filed within 48 hours.

At this point, a lawyer for Oscar, the man who is still somehow being held, filed a motion for contempt of court.

Ms.

Voss is Anna Voss, a senior lawyer representing the federal government here.

She's in the courtroom listening to all of this.

After Ms.

Voss's response, more days pass, with the man, Oscar, still in detention, and the judge not getting updates.