Growing up in Brooklyn, after college she worked two years in New York City, then went to law school – working for Ken Starr during the Clinton scandal she deposed Monica Lewinsky.
She married, settling in Portland – George Bush made her a U.S. Attorney. Dark-haired, practical, leading prosecutors, sitting in courtrooms she made it her mission to do what was right.
Donald Trump made her a federal judge. Lost to Biden. Beat Harris. Ordered soldiers to Portland to stop ICE protests – the state of Oregon sued to stop him. The case landed in her courtroom.
She held two hearings, after listening to both sides ruled against Trump: The protests, she decided, were not an insurrection to overthrow the government. They were simply protests.
Unhappy, Trump claimed that agitators, instigators, were burning Portland to the ground; Stephen Miller accused Judge Karin Immergut of an ‘insurrection;’ fake videos flew across the internet showing violent riots in Portland that didn’t exist, a doctored photograph showed her taking a stack of cash from George Soros. None of it was true.
That’s a picture of our politics today – we’ve fallen a long way since the days of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.
