Kathryn Rubino
Role at the time: Senior editor at Above the Law, in a commentary on the site
Condemned
Statement summary
Writing about Floyd's letter, Rubino says the immigration crackdown has left a Justice Department that cannot keep up with the detentions it produces, and that the office in western Washington lacks the lawyers to keep defending them.
“There's a second casualty, too: a Justice Department that no longer has the lawyers to keep up with the mess its own policy created.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Above the Law: Trump's DOJ ran off so many lawyers it can't even show up to keep people locked up anymoreArticle text, opening paragraphs
Why we used this label
Rubino blames the office's retreat on a Justice Department that ran short of lawyers while pursuing its own detention policy, which criticizes the decision and the policy behind it, so we labeled it condemns.