Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail
The system sucks. This job sucks. I wish you could hold me in contempt so that I could get 24 hours of sleep, Le said, according to reporting by Lou Raguse of NBC affiliate KARE. Le's remarks were also confirmed to NBC News by a person in the courtroom.
Raguse, who was in the courtroom, reported that Le said it was like pulling teeth to get the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Justice Department to follow court orders.
She made the remarks after U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered the government to explain why it had not followed court orders in immigration proceedings, including not releasing several immigrant detainees he had ordered be let out.
Blackwell said in an order this week that the government's "failures" were "alarming" because the government's "persistent noncompliance with orders in this District was extensively detailed just last week," pointing to a decision from Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee. Schiltz wrote that his "patience is at an end" and that the government had failed to comply with "dozens of court orders."
Le told Blackwell during the court hearing on Tuesday that it takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected,
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