DETENTION FACILITIES.
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LOOKING
TO DECERTIFY AN IMMIGRATION
JUDGE'S UNION.
YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT THAT JUDGES
DON'T HAVE UNIONS, BUT
IMMIGRATION JUDGES DO.
THAT UNION HAS CRITICIZED THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
AT ISSUE WHETHER FEDERAL
IMMIGRATION JUDGES CAN LEGALLY
BE IN A UNION.
THE FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS
AUTHORITY HAS CRITICIZE
PRESIDENT PLAN TO IMPOSE QUOTAS
AND DEADLINES ON THE JUDGES, YOU
KNOW TO ACTUALLY WORK AND CREATE
RESULTS TO DEAL WITH A MASSIVE
BACKLOG OF IMMIGRATION CASES.
JOINING US, FORMER ACTING U.S.
ATTORNEY GENERAL, MATTHEW
WHITAKER.
GREAT TOO
GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE.
>> THANK YOU.
GLAD I COULD BE HERE.
LOU: I IT NOT REALIZE THAT
IMMIGRATION JUDGES HAVE A UNION.
>> THEY HAD A UNION, I WAS CHIEF
OF STAFF AND ACTING ATTORNEY
GENERAL, THE UNION RESISTED A
LOT OF OUR PLANS TO REDUCE
BACKLOG OF 900 THOUSAND PENDING
ASYLUM CASES, ALL WE WERE ASKING
-- SO AVERAGE IMMIGRATION JUDGE
CARRIES OVER 700 A YEAR, WE
ASKED TO DO LESS THAN AVERAGE,
WE SAID LESS THAN AVERAGE, THAT
WILL BE ONE OF YOUR MANAGEMENT
STANDARDS.
AND THEY RESISTED IT.
IN THE HIGH VOLUME DISTRICTS.
WHERE WE SEE A LOT OF THE CASES
FILE, THEY WOULD CONTINUE THE
CASES OVER AND OVER, WE WORKED
IN ISSUING ATTORNEY GENERAL
OPINIONS, I KNOW BILL BARR HAS
KEPT THEM TO TRY TO STREAM LINE
THE SYSTEM BRIDGE THIS BACK TO
RULE OF LAW.
UNDER SOME CONTROL.
THE SUPREME COURT ISSUED A
OPINION REGARDING THE WHETHER
THEIR MANAGEMENT -- THEY ARE
MANAGEMENT OR WORKER AND CAN
UNIONIZE, SCC ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
JUDGES, I THINK THIS IS
APPLICATION OF THANK TO ME THIS
IS SOMETHING WE WERE WORK OI WAS
GLAD FRIDAY TO HAVE THEM
ANNOUNCE THEY WOULD SEEK TO
DECERTIFY THAT UNION.
LOU: IF THEY ARE TELLING THE
PRESIDENT-UNITED STATES TO GO TO
HELL, THEY WILL HAVE A HARD CASE
PROVING THEY ARE JUST WORKERS,
THAT MAKES NO SENSE TO ASSERT
THAT -- DAIRY
THAT -- DARRY
THAT -- DAREY
THAT -- DARE WE CALL IT
PRIVILEGE.
>> THE JUDGES, THERE IS A RIGHT
TO APPEAL WENT THE IMMIGRATION
COURT SYSTEM THAT IS WITHIN THE
DEPUTY OF JUSTICE, AND MANAGE BY
ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO SITS AT THE
SUPREME COURT OF IMMIGRATION
COURTS AND HAS A LOT OF
AUTHORITY TO SET PRECEDENT.
A LOT OF JUDGES DID NOT LIKE
PRECEDENT THAT SESSIONS AND BARR
TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE MORE --
>> HARD TO IMAGINE ATTORNEY
GENERAL BARR COMING INTO A
TOUGHER ENVIRONMENT.
>> I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE
ENVIRONMENT.
>> I LOOK AT THE MESS THAT IS
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, WHEN I
LOOK AT EVERY ISSUE FROM
IMMIGRATION TO NATIONAL
SECURITY.
TO THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, ITSELF.
THE DETENTION CENTER AND BUREAU
OF PRISONS, THIS IS MINDLESSLY
OUT OF CONTROL.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS RESCUABLE.
>> THERE IS NEVER A BORING DAY
AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
WITH BUREAU OF PRISON BE ALL
U.S. ATTORNEYS IN THEIR OFFICE,
AND YOU ARE WEARING THE WHITE
HAT, YOU ARE DOING JUSTICE, AT
THE SAME TIME, YOU ARE ALSO HELD
TO A VERY HIGH STANDARD, WE
EXPECT PEOPLE WITH POWERFUL
POSITION OF DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE USE THAT POWER
APPROPRIATELY, THEY ARE
FOLLOWING PROTOCOL, IN PLACE,
LIKE AT MCC IF APPEARS NOBODY
KNOWS HOW TO WATCH SOMEONE LIKE
EPSTEIN.
LOU: AND WHO DECIDED THAT AFTER
HE TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE
SUDDENLY HE WAS NOT SUICIDAL.
>> WITHIN 10 DAYS.
LOU: THIS IS BEYOND.
THIS GIVES EVERY CONSPIRACY
THEORIST IN THE COUNTRY REASON
TO SPECULATE.
I GOT A KICK OUT OF.
A COUPLE OF THE DEM PRESIDENT AT
HOPEFUL IN 2020, SAYING THAT
PRESIDENT SOME NOT SPECULATE.
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS
SPECULATING, AND KNOWS WHAT THIS
STUFF SMELLS LIKE IT SMELL LIKE
IS IN A PARTNER
IS IN A BARTNER
IS IN A BARNNER
IS IN A BARN YR
IS IN A BARN YARD.
>> YOU KNOW, YOU APPLY REASON
AND COMMON SEASON, THAT TELL US
THAT THIS IS FISHY, DOES NOT
MAKE ANY SENSE.
LOU: I HATE TO BREAK IT TO THE
LEFT HERE, BUT THIS IS AMERICA.
WE SPEAK OUR MINES, WE SPEAK --
MINDS WE SPEAK PLAINLY WE DON'T
GIVE UP, EASY OUR RIGHT TOO
FIRST AMENDMENT EAR
FIRST AMENDMENT OAR
FIRST AMENDMENT ORR
FIRST AMENDMENT OR SECOND
AMENDMENT.
>> AMEN TO THAT.