{"id":4762,"date":"2026-06-22T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:35:20","slug":"federal-judge-rejects-doj-subpoenas-issued-to-gov-walz-minneapolis-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4762","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rejects DOJ subpoenas issued to Gov. Walz, Minneapolis mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ruling marks another defeat in the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to pressure Democratic leaders to carry out the president\u2019s immigration agenda. <\/strong><\/p>

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at an election-night party in St. Paul in 2022 after winning reelection. (Abbie Parr\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

A federal judge rejected Justice Department subpoenas issued to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), another defeat in the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to pressure Democratic leaders to help carry out the president\u2019s aggressive immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

Minnesota\u2019s chief federal judge, Patrick J. Schiltz, determined<\/a> that the Justice Department issued the subpoenas to coerce officials in the state to take specific actions around immigration enforcement. Walz, Frey and other state and local officials received subpoenas which, while not identical, broadly sought records relating to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department has struggled \u2014 without success \u2014 to identify a single plausible investigatory justification for the subpoenas,\u201d Schiltz wrote.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department issued the subpoenas in January<\/a> as President Donald Trump and other federal officials alleged that the Democratic leaders were impeding federal law enforcement officers\u2019 abilities to do their jobs in the state. The subpoenas were issued amid a bitter political battle between the Trump administration and state officials following the fatal shooting of protester Ren\u00e9e Good in Minneapolis by an immigration officer earlier that month. That shooting happened amid a surge of federal immigration officers in the state ordered by Trump.<\/p>\n

Other Democratic leaders, including Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison, also received subpoenas.<\/p>

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Efforts by the officials in Minnesota to challenge the subpoenas have played out in sealed proceedings. Schiltz, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, issued a ruling voiding the subpoenas last week. The judge unsealed that ruling Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis course of events \u2014 in and of itself \u2014 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,\u201d Schiltz wrote. \u201cAnd, of course, this campaign played out against the backdrop of the Trump administration\u2019s well-established history of using criminal investigations to retaliate against and pressure the President\u2019s political and personal adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walz called the ruling a \u201cvictory for the rule of law and our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never stop exercising my constitutional rights to stand up for Minnesotans and the American freedoms we hold dear,\u201d he wrote in a statement posted on social media.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post previously reported that the law under which the Justice Department investigated the officials was a federal statute on conspiracy to impede a federal investigation. That is similar to the charges filed against protesters who federal officials allege have attempted to block immigration officers as they do their work.<\/p>

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This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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