Report: DOJ Subpoenas More Minnesota Dems in Probe Alleging ICE Obstruction
Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are a few who received the subpoenas.
Numerous outlets have reported that the DOJ has sent subpoenas to high-profile Minnesota Democrats in a probe alleging obstruction of ICE, demanding records and communications.
Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are a few who received the subpoenas.
NBC News said that St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and officials in two other counties also got them.
The news about Walz and Frey came out over the weekend.
Frey and Ellison told NBC News:
“When the federal government weaponizes its power to try to intimidate local leaders for doing their jobs, every American should be concerned. We shouldn’t have to live in a country where people fear that federal law enforcement will be used to play politics or crack down on local voices they disagree with,” Frey added.
“In Minneapolis, we won’t be afraid. We know the difference between right and wrong and, as Mayor, I’ll continue doing the job I was elected to do: keeping our community safe and standing up for our values,” the Democratic mayor added.
In a statement, Ellison said the subpoena was “for records and documents, not for me personally.”
“Everything about this is highly irregular, especially the fact that this comes shortly after my office sued the Trump Administration to challenge their illegal actions within Minnesota,” the state attorney general said.
“Let’s be clear about why this is happening: Donald Trump is coming after the people of Minnesota and I’m standing in his way,” Ellison added. “I will not be intimidated, and I will not stop working to protect Minnesotans from Trump’s campaign of retaliation and revenge.”
Fox News learned last week that the DOJ had launched an investigation into Walz and Frey for allegedly preventing ICE from performing its duties.
NBC News and CBS News saw a copy of the subpoena, which did not state the alleged criminal violations.
Someone told CBS that 18 U.S. Code § 372 – Conspiracy to impede or injure an officer is the statute.
Does that sound familiar? It should because the government used that statute against the January 6 defendants.
Ellison, Frey, and Walz have expressed their disgust for ICE and the Trump administration, especially after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good on January 7.
The rhetoric from the three men, the MSM, and other Democrats started immediately, trashing ICE and claiming the agent killed Good in cold blood. Walz threatened to deploy the Minnesota National Guard
A week later, on behalf of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, Ellison filed a lawsuit against the DHS to stop the surge of ICE agents, screaming the Tenth Amendment and the Equal Sovereignty Clause.
“This operation is driven by nothing more than the Trump Administration’s desire to punish political opponents and score partisan points—at the direct expense of Plaintiffs’ residents,” Ellison wrote in the lawsuit. “Defendants’ actions appear designed to provoke community outrage, sow fear, and inflict emotional distress, and they are interfering with the ability of state and local officials to protect and care for their residents.”
In other words, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
Then the men feigned shock when they discovered the feds had left out Minnesota officials in the investigation into the shooting.
Yeah, um, Walz once called ICE the Gestapo. Why would ICE ever want him involved in an investigation concerning the agency?
The rhetoric and need for a cause have led to riots against ICE. Everyone is on edge.
How did Walz respond? He encouraged people to protect illegal aliens, film ICE “atrocities,” and “resist” at all costs.
Oh, let’s refresh our memory of an incident the day after Walz’s TV address. An ICE agent shot an illegal alien because the man and two others, also illegal aliens, attacked him with a shovel and broomstick.
Local authorities aren’t going to take action, so, yeah, why worry about the consequences?
[Featured image via YouTube (Frey), YouTube (Ellison), and YouTube (Walz)]
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unless there is a real possibility of prison time for these guilty freaks
stop wasting our time
It doesn’t have to result in charges against these people personally. The DOJ is setting up a case for military intervention.
both things can happen to make just real for this case
jail and proper police action
Walz recently boldly said: ““If they have emails showing I committed fraud, put them out. Turn them over to prosecutors.”
A Twitter group made up of DHS employees, Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary, posted this: “Tim Walz implemented a data retention policy to delete MN DHS emails after 1 year, other agencies to delete their emails after 3 months. We were suspicious and asked the attorney behind this scheme. The attorney said that state leaders worry that emails could get into the hands of “adverse parties”.
It’s clear why Tim Walz implemented this email deletion policy. To cover his tracks. There’s no reason why state communications should ever be deleted because we need to know who made critical decisions.”
Walz knows the evidence has been deleted.
“as Mayor, I’ll continue doing the job I was elected to do: keeping our community safe”
Riots, church invasions, arsons, murders,
Great job you’ve been doing so far, retard.
“Donald Trump is coming after the people of Minnesota and I’m standing in his way,”
Trump is coming after all the fraudsters, thugs, and criminals in Minnesota — elected or unelected — for the BENEFIT of the actual people of Minnesota. That means YOU, personally.
He’s used profanity in speeches in an attempt to look tough, but the fool doesn’t realize it actually makes him look like a desperate wimp.
“Then the men feigned shock when they discovered the feds had left out Minnesota officials in the investigation into the shooting.”
It’s just Democrat Rules (Ruby Ridge, Waco).
Cope and seethe.
Ruby Ridge was the doing of a Republican administration.
Deep State
But the coverup OF THE INVESTIGATION was all Clinton’s.
FBI corruption is non partisan. Read any biography of J. Edgar Hoover.
The DOJ also served Mary Moriarity, the evil Hennepin County DA, who is the one who constantly refuses to prosecute liberals, like the Waltz HR staffer who keyed a $100,00 Tesla, she let the guy off.
LEFTIES,Democrats, DFL:ers NOT liberals.
All statewide offices in MN: US Senators,Gov., LtGov., State Auditor and SOS have been Democrat since 2010.
These subpoenas are find but what about the others?
Did Dem US Senators get any kind of kickback?
Where was the state auditor?
SOS is supposed to approve and license businesses – where was SOS
The MN Democrat Party will not be phased out if the defanfants are ultimately found guilty and imprisoned. They will look to elect Sen Amy Klobuchar as the new governor
Make sure it’s televised and the lights are especially bright. Be very polite and respectful towards them but ask them pointed leading questions, and give them every opportunity to flap their gums. What we want are unforced errors. Collect them and don’t pounce but towards then end circle back and hammer them until they are sweating more than Nixon during his debate with Kennedy.
Ellison says his subpoena was for documents, not for a personal interview. The others may be the same.
Get the documents first. Correlate them with evidence from other sources.
Then subpoena the individuals and ask them lots of questions whose answers are already known.
Followup supoenas are cheap.
Suppose the political parties were reversed. (I know, cheap shot—but valid). Do you think there would be no dawn raids with, curiously, MSM cameras set up?
I’m still awaiting Trump’s own first dawn raid. I voted for that.
There is no such clause. Equal sovereignty is a principle or doctrine. It isn’t explicitly stated anywhere in the constitution; it’s an underlying assumption of the whole constitution, that the framers thought so obvious it didn’t need to be stated.
Correct. But it’s at least equally clear that the authors of the Constitution granted exclusive legislative jurisdiction over immigration and border control to the federal government and the States surrendered any jurisdiction they may had over those issue when they ratified the Constitution. The States remain nominally sovereign, but gave up certain authority for the sake of making certain laws “regular” (i.e. consistent) across the entire country. Individual States can’t reject (much less actively resist) the enforcement of federal law made by the States collectively through Congress. If they want more direct input into that process, they can work to repeal the 17th Amendment.
“But it’s at least equally clear that the authors of the Constitution granted exclusive legislative jurisdiction over immigration and border control to the federal government”
Not clear at all. Citizenship, yes. Border control? Maybe. Immigration? Not at all.
As Henry says, there’s nothing in the constitution giving Congress authority over immigration, and for the first century or so no one thought Congress had any such authority.
Congress’s plenary authority over immigration was invented by the Supreme Court about 100 years after ratification, on the premise that this was inherent in the concept of sovereignty and therefore didn’t have to be explicitly enumerated. It was just obvious. But if it was really that obvious there would have been federal laws on immigration from the beginning, not a century later.
So for originalists this is a problem. But not one that needs to be resolved right this minute. For now the SCOTUS opinion, which is now about 150 years old, remains the law. When we’ve fixed the rest of the mess we can reconsider this too, and perhaps introduce an amendment to say yes, what we’ve been doing is authorized.
Good information.
I do find “when we’ve fixed the rest of this mess…” charming. I am 82, grew up on the Mexican border. The “mess” has pretty much monotonically worsened my entire life. The Biden era only notable in its insanity.
While I suspect ANY assessment of the Government on its own performance, it appears Trump has the border under control. The “mess” has just morphed into the Sisyphusean task of dealing with who knows how many people—20M?—that shouldn’t be here.
“Congress’s plenary authority over immigration was invented by the Supreme Court about 100 years after ratification, on the premise that this was inherent in the concept of sovereignty and therefore didn’t have to be explicitly enumerated.”
And the glaring fallacy in this argument is that it ignores the fact that states are sovereign, too.
with every dem win …at the polls…courts schools/unions
they have no reason to compromise like the gop does
trump was talking about there being stock exchanges outside of nyc and how thats bad for nyc…then I saw that dallas tx has a stock exchange
dallas also has the most homeless population in texas….street crimes that are so huge in numbers the pd lies about the stats…. a bs blck mayor who claims to have gone gop…laughable…and I read all that just by reading that AT&T moved to a suburb and how the Dallas admins were all over that with their pr,,,they arent moving b/c of crime etc….
yeah ,,right
(looking at the picture)
so a jew a muslim and a male filled with tampons walk into a bar……….
A juice bar, in’shallah.
Don’t underestimate the power of a pocket full of subpeenies…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7zWt86JzpsI
We really need a guy like James J. Wells these days.
Really have to wonder what the connections are between all this non-cooperation and all of the unprecedented fraud that’s been uncovered recently there.
Literally Boss Tweed objects to being persecuted by Literally Hitler.
Is there a Samuel Tilden type politician in Minnesota able to stand up to the MSP Tammany Hall?
Nick Shirley is doing a find job of replicating the work that Thomas Nast did in exposing Boss Tweed and the systemic NY State corruption.
What a brazen way to falsely frame the issue. Your “job” is not to obstruct, or to conspire to obstruct, the enforcement of federal immigration law. Those are crimes. And no man, not even a Jacob Frey, is above the law.
However it is not their job to assist in that enforcement. The constitution protects their right to stand aside and refuse any assistance. But it also protects the federal government’s right, in he face of such refusal, to bring in as much force as it then needs to do its job all on its own.
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