Leah Litman

Another federal judge said, no, no, no, that's illegal.

And the problem with making all of these illegal appointments is...

If you have an illegally appointed prosecutor, then the cases that they bring have to be thrown out.

And so it was jeopardizing public safety, law enforcement, law and order.

And so all of these judges were like, guys, just fucking get your act together and accept the lawfully appointed U.S.

attorney.

Because under federal law, the judges basically have the power to select a U.S.

attorney for a district after a certain period of time.

And that was what the Trump administration was resisting.

Right.

So in this particular case, it involved a defendant who had been indicted for a child pornography offense.

And because the U.S.

Attorney's Office is just not functioning, apparently the U.S.

Attorney's Office entered into a plea deal with this defendant without evidence.

actually searching the defendant's phone.

They agreed to a sentence before actually looking at all of the defendant's phone.

And once they looked, it had even more child sexual abuse material on it.

But because they had entered this plea agreement, they were kind of stuck to it.

And this judge was pissed off.

He was like, what are you doing?