Pam Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota Could Unravel Entire ICE Crackdown
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s blackmail letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the killing of protester Alex Pretti could force the Trump administration to end its violent crackdown on immigration in the state.
On Saturday, hours after Border Patrol agents fatally shot Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis, Bondi demanded that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz give the Trump administration full access to the state’s Medicaid and SNAP records so his office could “effectively investigate fraud.” Bondi also asked Walz to end the sanctuary state policy and hand everything over to him. State Trump voter registration records. Walz refused.
Now a federal judge is viewing the letter as evidence that the administration is using the presence of armed federal agents as a means of coercion to achieve its policy goals.
“They’re not letting the courts sort this out. What they’re trying to achieve in the courts…they’re trying to achieve the same thing by putting 3,000 heavily armed officers on the streets of Minnesota,” attorneys representing the state said. argued in court Monday. “The President of the United States said that in the midst of this chaos and violence in the streets…he said, ‘Minnesota, your day of vengeance has come.’ It’s crazy. How can this not violate legal sovereignty?
Judge Kathrine Menendez expressed her own concerns about the federal operation, noting that Bondi’s letter to Walz clearly detailed a policy-based exchange, without federal agents for concessions on MAGA policy.
“Is the executive trying to achieve a goal by force that it cannot achieve through the courts? Menendez asked DOJ lawyers.
“I don’t know if this lawsuit will succeed, but it would be objectively hilarious if the feds lost because Trump made Bondi write a nasty letter admitting that it was all extortion,” one user said. wrote on X.
Results regarding the case, Minnesota V. Noemare still pending.
