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.

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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.