The Justice Department has placed on administrative leave a government immigration lawyer who in court this week expressed frustration at not being able to answer key questions from a judge over a mistaken deportation case, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The headline is missing the point and downplaying what’s going on here, this lawyer wasn’t expressing frustration, he didn’t raise his voice or make insulting remarks or anything like that. He was asked by the judge [paraphrased] “Why is your client breaking the law?” and replied [paraphrased] “I asked them that too. I guess they didn’t mean to do it?” but the Trump administration wanted him to either straight up lie and say they hadn’t broken the law or refuse to answer the judge’s questions and pretend the court didn’t have authority to ask them.
Not only is our executive branch breaking the law and ignoring court orders to follow the law, they’re throwing out any attorneys who won’t also break the law and ignore judges too.
The headline is missing the point and downplaying what’s going on here, this lawyer wasn’t expressing frustration, he didn’t raise his voice or make insulting remarks or anything like that. He was asked by the judge [paraphrased] “Why is your client breaking the law?” and replied [paraphrased] “I asked them that too. I guess they didn’t mean to do it?” but the Trump administration wanted him to either straight up lie and say they hadn’t broken the law or refuse to answer the judge’s questions and pretend the court didn’t have authority to ask them.
Not only is our executive branch breaking the law and ignoring court orders to follow the law, they’re throwing out any attorneys who won’t also break the law and ignore judges too.