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The Latest Breaking News from Jerry Blackwell

‘This job sucks’: Trump admin DHS lawyer begs Minnesota judge to hold her in contempt so she can sleep

Things are not going well in Minnesota.

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'This Job Sucks'

Plus: the partial withdrawal of federal agents from Minneapolis, shifting public opinion on immigration, and D.C.'s continued snowpocalypse.

Reason

Government lawyer yanked from immigration detail in Minnesota after telling judge 'this job sucks'

A government lawyer who told a judge that her job “sucks” during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota has been removed from her Justice Department post

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ICE attorney who said ‘this job sucks’ removed from detail

Julie Le expressed frustration to judge, in response to questions about failure to comply with court orders

The Guardian - US

No Pseudonymity for Plaintiffs Seeking to Respond to School's "Black Lives Matter" Posters

From yesterday's decision in Cajune v. Indep. School Dist. 194, by Judge Jerry Blackwell (D. Minn.) (for more on the First Amendment issue raised in the case, see this post): Believing the posters carried political messages, some parents and students objected to [a Minnesota school board's] hanging "Black Lives Matter"…

Reason

In new book, Keith Ellison goes behind the scenes of Derek Chauvin prosecution

MINNEAPOLIS — In a new book "Break the Wheel," released Tuesday, Attorney General Keith Ellison pulls back the curtain on the massive effort behind the pandemic-era prosecution of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

Tribune News Service

Key Derek Chauvin prosecutor confirmed as federal judge

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Jerry Blackwell — one of the prosecutors who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer of murder in the killing of George Floyd — as the next federal judge in Minnesota

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George Floyd deserved a better life. A new book charts his trajectory from poverty to the US prison-industrial complex – and the impact of his death

George Perry Floyd, Jr. was murdered when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sank his knee into Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. Video footage went viral within hours, helping to inspire protests against racism and police violence that lasted all the American summer of 2020.

The Conversation

Biden nominates Chauvin prosecutor for federal judge in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS — President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Jerry Blackwell to be the next federal judge in Minnesota, elevating the Minneapolis attorney who gained international notoriety for his role in the prosecution of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd.

Tribune News Service

Key Derek Chauvin prosecutor tapped to be federal judge

President Joe Biden has nominated one of the prosecutors who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer of murder in the killing of George Floyd to be a federal judge in Minnesota

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