Federal Judge Tosses Minnesota Lawsuit to Stop Immigration Enforcement Surge

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The outcome should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment, on which Minnesota AG Keith Ellison relied for his lawsuit. What may come as a surprise is that not even the normally sympathetic federal judge hearing the case would swallow it.

Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden-appointed jurist whose recent stay on ICE operations got sharply overturned by the Eighth Circuit, threw in the towel early this time. She ruled that Minnesota couldn't make its case for judicial intervention to stop Operation Metro Surge, the Homeland Security effort to find violent illegal-alien criminals released by state and local authorities into the Twin Cities:

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In other words, Minnesota just got hoist by the precedential petards of the Obama and Biden years.

With this dismissal, Tim Walz has little choice now but to begin cooperating with Tom Homan, ICE, and Border Patrol. They won't win this Tenth Amendment argument on further review, and they know it.

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