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Minnesota’s Ridiculous Lawsuit to Bar Federal Immigration Enforcement

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks as Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey look on during a press conference in Minneapolis, Minn., January 12, 2026.

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There is a hearing in Minneapolis federal court this morning regarding a lawsuit brought by Keith Ellison, the radical leftist elected by Minnesotans to be their state attorney general. The state is asking Judge Kate Menendez to halt the Trump administration’s surge of federal agents to enforce Congress’s immigration laws. Menendez, a Biden appointee, is the judge whose temporary restraining order, an attempt to usurp executive law enforcement authority, has been blocked by the Eighth Circuit (as I discussed here).

Regardless of what you think about how the administration has executed the surge in Minneapolis and other blue cities around the country — and the president’s sudden assignment of “border czar” Tom Homan to take it over signals that the White House knows it has a big public perception problem — the lawsuit is ridiculous.

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