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Posted on 06/23/2026 8:04:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
U.S. District Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz threw out subpoenas against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other officials regarding immigration.
“This course of events- in and of itself-establishes beyond reasonable dispute that the subpoenas were a part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration in its enforcement of immigration laws,” wrote Schiltz. “And, of course, this campaign played out against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s well-established history of using criminal investigations to retaliate against and pressure the President’s political and personal adversaries.”
President Donald Trump and his administration initiated Operation Metro Surge, an initiative to enforce immigration laws in major Minnesota cities. It placed over 3,000 agents in the state.
We all know how that turned out. The situation descended into chaos, leading Trump to oust Kristi Noem as DHS secretary and to appoint Border Czar Tom Homan.
Prosecutors issued six subpoenas for records from the offices of Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and the boards of commissioners in Hennepin and Ramsey counties.
Schiltz said the court only needed to address one reason to reject the subpoenas: “the moving parties’ contention that the subpoenas were issued as part of an unconstitutional effort to coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration laws and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so.”
Schiltz determined that Trump used his powers to target Walz and others.
“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,” wrote Schiltz.
The judge came to this conclusion because “the evidence that the challenged subpoenas were issued for unlawful reasons is overwhelming.”
Schiltz also pointed out the DHS could not “identify a single plausible investigatory justification for the subpoenas.”
In fact, the judge found that the subpoenas were “extraordinarily broad” and sought to compel the officials to hand over “constitutionally protected conduct.”
“The fact that connections between the information sought in the subpoenas and any possible criminal violation range from extremely weak to nonexistent only adds to the overwhelming evidence that these subpoenas were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, and retaliate,” said Schiltz.
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That is what I would have guessed.
So if you’re a lefty Trump hater, robbing banks and embezzlement is just fine. Amazing.
Makes me wonder if Tiny Timmy the tampon salesman, Ellison the Racist and their little Furby mayor paid for this fraudulent “decision” by a Dipsh*t Court judgette. Time for SCOTUS to get off their asses and go to work. The rogue judiciary in this country has definitely gone FULL RETARD. It needs to be defunded and removed. It is anti-American and pro-foreign freeloaders, pro-the insane and pro-America hating DemonRATS.
According to this ‘judge’, important Democrats cannot even be questioned about fraud that is obvious to everyone.
Ah, yeah, DBag, helping Fed to enforce Fed laws passed by Congress is a responsibility of State gov’mt. To refuse to do so is insurrection ‘cause yah took an oath to support Fed Constitution.
They don’t call it “Fraud” or “Robbery”. They call it “Redistribution” or “Retribution”.
Economic justice?
Underscored by the judge's statement:
“And, of course, this campaign played out against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s well-established history of using criminal investigations to retaliate against and pressure the President’s political and personal adversaries.”
"Well-established"? With that, it is clear he mixed up his presidents.
Which is why the US will be a socialist country in the next 10 years. The left own the courts, the media and education. I see no way of stopping it. It’s just a matter of time.
It’s not whining to ask a question. Stop yelling at the people on Free Republic. I know, it’s more dramatic to say that than it is to rant about people on other platforms obviously no one cares what Facebook users think about indictments.
Actually it's Leftism that is the correct moniker, in so many respects, for the political cancer appropriately called the "Progressive Movement", as it describes the cancer as a "progressive" disease that metasticizes into healthy areas of the Republic and, left unchecked and not literally destroyed, will ultimately kill the patient.
Cheers!
Another judge who works on behalf of the criminals instead of the taxpaying citizens! ....imho
“The connections between information sought in the subpoenas and any possible criminal violation
range from extremely weak to nonexistent only adds to the overwhelming evidence that subpoenas
were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, and retaliate,” said Judge Schiltz.
Nauseating.
Trump needs to go full Pinochet before it’s too late.
Remember all those judges who quashed the democrats using lawfare to destroy Trump?
Yeah… not one.
Get rekt judge
The left corrupts everything they touch.
Judges aren’t writing these. All these essays, little more than a NYT editorial, are already written by some DNC shill.
Who is yelling? I am referring to those here on FR who continually whine “where are ethe indictments?”
Get Jim Jordan to do it then.
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