DOJ plans to subpoena Minnesota attorney general, sources say, as tensions flare over immigration enforcement surge
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Source: CNN
DOJ plans to subpoena Minnesota attorney general, sources say, as tensions flare over immigration enforcement surge
Updated 12:26 PM EST, Tue January 20, 2026
Where things stand now
The Justice Department plans to subpoena Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison related to an investigation of possible obstruction of federal officers during recent protests, two sources said. The governor and Minneapolis mayor, also Democrats, are expected to get subpoenas, too, as the Trump administrations turbocharged, coast-to-coast immigration enforcement crackdown targets the state.
DOJ appealed a judges ruling that federal agents in Minnesota cant arrest or use pepper spray on peaceful protesters or stop people in their cars without cause.
DOJ launched a separate investigation after demonstrators interrupted Sunday service at a church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent reportedly preaches.
Critics are denouncing DOJs handling of the fatal shooting this month of protester Renee Good in Minneapolis. While the FBI briefly opened a civil rights investigation into the ICE agent who shot Good, the probe pivoted to investigating Good and those around her, including her widow.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minnesota-ice-protests-01-20-26
Klarkashton
(4,798 posts)It's called business as usual.
Blue Owl
(58,269 posts)Hes no fool and he has the law on his side .
Miguelito Loveless
(5,465 posts)It is time for you to start arresting ICE Gestapo agents for abduction, assault, deprivation of civil rights under color of law, plus any other vehicular misdemeanors you happen across, perhaps malicious mopery with intent to disrupt the peace.
Many of these assholes have criminal records, which you will turn up when you arrest them! I am willing to bet some of them have outstanding warrants.
Fight BACK, goddamn it!
mahatmakanejeeves
(68,456 posts)The feds gone and done it.
Prosecutors Subpoena Minnesota Democrats as Part of Federal Inquiry
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143602114
Yonnie3
(19,252 posts)the title doesn't match the story anymore
updated story at https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143602114