Homeland Security Secretary Who Sent Federal Agents to Quell Portland “Lawlessness” Held His Office Unlawfully

"Portlander, journalist and Harvard-trained lawyer Sarah Jeong has a
fantastic piece in The Verge about Chad Wolf, the former U.S. secretary
of Homeland Security who sent federal agents into Portland to quell the
George Floyd protests.

Those agents, a mishmash of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers,
U.S. deputy marshals and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, are
most notorious for dragging protesters away in unmarked vans. Their
effect on the city ranged from the civic scale—nightly countdowns to
tear-gas clouds at the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse—to personal terrors,
like the Residence Inn maintenance worker who went to unclog a toilet
and found a semi-automatic handgun pointed at his chest. Arguably, no
arrival in the past decade changed the city as much as these agents.

Jeong argues it wasn’t the protesters the feds should have been going
after. It was Wolf himself.

Yes, Jeong writes, thanks to the gross incompetence of the Trump administration, Wolf was in office illegally. “These brutal yet
ineffective tactics were a response to the supposed ‘lawlessness’ of the George Floyd protests in Portland,” she writes. “But Wolf’s own lawless occupation of the secretary’s seat would go largely unchecked.”

It’s a hilarious, horrifying read. While you’re at it, read our 2019 interview with Jeong in which she discusses the ill effects of the
internet on public life and weighs the odds that humanity is hopelessly garbage.'"

https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2022/07/10/report-homeland-security-secretary-who-sent-federal-agents-to-quell-portland-lawlessness-held-his-office-unlawfully/

https://www.theverge.com/c/23172433/chad-wolf-homeland-secretary-illegal-tenure-dhs

TB

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