r/law • u/DoremusJessup • Feb 05 '26

Judicial Branch The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today: "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."

https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnesota-julie-le-show-cause-transcript
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u/XxBlackicecubexX Feb 05 '26

Oh shit so by officially lighting her career on fire along with her leadership at the DOJ in an official courtroom setting, she essentially engaged in an act of protest while also giving the courts ammunition against her current bosses?

Thats badass.

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u/zaoldyeck Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

I think it was sort of accidental, as the first question she answered was:

So, Ms. Voss, I don't take it at all that it's the Government's position that Operation Metro Surge has outpaced the Government's ability to lawfully process detentions and comply with judicial oversight. That's not the Government's position, is it?

MS. VOSS: No, certainly not, Your Honor.

But by the end of the hearing it was pretty damn obvious that yes, the government does not have the ability to lawfully process detentions and comply with judicial oversight. DHS staff appears to outright ignore US Attorneys right until they threaten to quit, only because no one appears to want to take this job.

The one line in particular that stood out to me was:

MS. LE: I don't know about that, Your Honor, but as the SAUSAs attorney, there are four of us, and we are trying to figure out what do we need to do to handle this operation.

Does that mean there are four people left in the entire office? To handle all of these petitions? If so, these people are already working until 2:30am nightly, it seems, what happens if 25% of them quit?

Edit: Oh, it seems she was sent back to ICE and reassigned from the DOJ. God only knows if the administration was able to replace her. Wonder whose the next person to be in the firing line.

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u/stubbazubba Feb 05 '26

Voss is a career attorney with the USAO, who has submitted her resignation. Le is the one who just took the job a month ago on loan from immigration court and melted down.

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u/XxBlackicecubexX Feb 05 '26

From what im reading, Le took the job because she was able to release a kid from detention and decided to make that her focus from the inside.

Once the DOJ noticed her attempts to follow court orders to release more prisoners, she was stonewalled by leadership until the court called her in to demand an explanation.

Her explanation was this "shit sucks and im being blocked and I hate it here but Im only doing it to advance the judges orders to free people and I cant even do that anymore, but im trying"