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Leah Litman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
843 total appearances

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Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

They are just engaged in an effort to try to find some way to smear Renee Good and to come up with heavily doctored footage that suggests the ICE officer wasn't at fault.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

And so they probably don't really care.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, they definitely don't care about actually uncovering what happened, because if they did, they wouldn't have released real time statements that already stated their predetermined conclusions.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

They wouldn't have excluded these law enforcement officials, you know, from participating in the investigation.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

So all of their behavior to date just suggests they don't really care.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I really don't know.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I'm not sure that there is any sort of standard across high-profile cases.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

It probably depends on whether...

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

They feel like they have spoken to everyone on scene, whether they have collected all available video.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

So it's a little bit hard to know exactly what...

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

It might take.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, part of it is also going to depend on some of these high profile cases often involve hate crime charges.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

And those often take longer because they require uncovering additional evidence of motive.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

And so, you know, could it be, again, that they are looking for some evidence related to that?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I don't know.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

That could prolong an investigation.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

So it's a little difficult to say, like, we should expect it to be wrapped up within this window or that.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Yeah.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

So as we were kind of previewing earlier, there are a bunch of obstacles that, again, getting back to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court has created to actually sue federal officers for violating your rights.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Now, Congress, you know, in the aftermath of the Civil War passed.