Federal judge nominee Stephanie Rose stressed today that she wasn’t the lead decision-maker in the Postville raid case, an unprecedented and controversial mass prosecution that has never been repeated.
Rose said she was the deputy criminal chief in the prosecutor’s office, but there were others above her in the chain of command, including Matt Dummermuth, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa at the time.
Rose, 39, is currently under consideration to be the next federal judge in the Southern District of Iowa – a lifetime position.
During a hearing on her nomination today, Rose said she wanted to clarify that she was simply a liaison between the prosecutor’s office and the defense attorneys, court clerks, federal agents and others tied to the prosecution of about 300 illegal immigrant meatpacking plant workers in 2008.
“My role was really as a key problem solver,” she told four senators on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. on today.
Asked what involvement Rose had with the planning of the raid, or with the plea agreements, Rose answered: “None.”
President Barack Obama nominated Rose last month.
(Source: Des Moines Register)
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Ein Shliach Ldvar Aveirah..
There are such times where you shoot the “supposed” messenger. Her attempt at pointing the blame elsewhere is plain and simple fatally flawed.
That was Eichmann’s (ימח שמו) defence: I wasn’t the main guy, I was just following orders.
Any involvement makes her equally as guilty of having perpetrated the grossest travesty of justice in US history. She deserves to switch places with SMR!!
#2 That was exactly my thought. She sounds like the Nazis (YM”S) who whined “I was just following orders”. A lifetime position! Then she can be as awful as she wants!