A former government lawyer who told a federal judge “this job sucks” while venting frustration at a hearing about President Trump’s immigration arrests is set to run for Congress. Julie T. Le was fired by the Trump administration after she made extraordinary remarks expressing exasperation at the huge case load resulting from Trump’s crackdown in Minnesota. Now she is running as a Democrat in the state to challenge incumbent Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, a regular thorn in President Trump’s side who has a strong donor base, national profile, and local support. Le’s headline-making comments came when she was asked by Judge Jerry W. Blackwell in February about why Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were ignoring court orders. “What do you want me to do?” Le asked during the hearing, according to the New York Times. “The system sucks. This job sucks.” She also asked the judge to hold her in contempt and toss her in jail so “I can have a full 24 hours of sleep.” Le told The Washington Post it was as she left the courtroom that she thought about how only lawmakers have the power to meaningfully change the enforcement system that she had criticized. “I was like, ‘Okay, I’m an attorney. I can’t do much at all.’ Legislators are the only ones that can change the law, or update the laws, or do something, so that we can have this under control.”
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