Federal judge blocks subpoenas to Minnesota officials in DOJ immigration probe
Schiltz said the DOJ lacked a plausible criminal basis and found the subpoenas were meant to coerce and retaliate against officials resisting immigration enforcement.
- On Monday, District Judge Patrick Schiltz quashed six grand jury subpoenas the Trump administration served against Minnesota officials, ruling the legal actions were retaliatory and unlawful.
- These subpoenas followed Minnesota officials' legal challenge against Operation Metro Surge, a federal immigration enforcement effort, as the administration sought to coerce local leaders into assisting with civil immigration law enforcement.
- The Justice Department "has struggled — without success — to identify a single plausible investigatory justification" for the subpoenas, with connections to criminal violations deemed "extremely weak to nonexistent."
- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hailed the ruling as a "victory for the rule of law," while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey denounced the subpoenas as "never about justice" but an attempt to intimidate political opponents.
- Attorney General Keith Ellison stated it should disturb every American that the administration is "weaponizing the criminal justice system" against political opponents, as Schiltz concluded the subpoenas targeted constitutionally protected conduct.
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Judge Rejects DOJ Subpoenas Against Tim Walz, Minnesota Officials
"Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action-particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take-is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use the grand-jury process." The post Judge Rejects DOJ Subpoenas Against Tim Walz, Minnesota Officials first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
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