Minnesota quickly rejects AG Pam Bondi’s request for the state’s voter rolls
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Minnesota’s secretary of state accused Bondi of making an “unlawful request a part of an apparent ransom to pay for our state’s peace and security.”

But that’s not all she did. The same day, the U.S. attorney general sent a three-page letter to Minnesota’s Democratic governor, sketching out three demands — what Bondi characterized as “common sense solutions” — that she asked Walz to obey.

Specifically, she directed Walz to (1) repeal Minnesota’s “sanctuary policies”; (2) disclose more information related to the state’s social insurance programs that became the subject of a fraud investigation; and (3) turn over the state’s voter registration records to the Trump administration.

The governor appeared unimpressed with the correspondence. “I would just give a pro tip to the attorney general: There’s 2 million documents in the Epstein files we’re still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those,” Walz said at a Sunday news conference.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 天前

      It only shows how this isn’t about Immigration, it’s about creating political pressure and trying to win the upcoming elections.

      “We’ll stop doing stochastic terrorism if you turn over a list of all of the Democratic Party affiliated people so that we can target them directly.”

      Their public statements are digging themselves a deep hole, legally speaking (not, like Dropkick Murphys speaking)

      e: removed all of the tracking URL crap from the link

      • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 天前

        That’s an interesting perspective. Trump leaning on his lessons from working with the mob?

        If they keep gaming the courts and depriving people of their legal protections I fear it will become more like the Dropkick Murphy’s deep hole. I know there’s lots of people on Lemmy that are fed up and are championing violence, and understandably so, but I’m sure any violence against the MAGA state will come a step costs.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 分钟前

          I don’t doubt that he learned a lot from Leonard Leo, who is very comfortable using coercive and arguably illegal tactics in the courts.

          Though I’d disagree that everyone championing violence is a human being, social media manipulation by bots is a fact of life and pushing strife and division is literally a textbook tactic: Foundations of Geopolitics.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
          20·
          1 天前

          Is Trump being held accountable for all the fraud he was convicted for doing himself? What about Desantis and his wife’s charity accepting millions of dollars for his campaign?

          Fuuuuuuuck that! Walz is a good guy and had something happen while he was governor. I’ll hold him accountable after the ICE agents are investigated, Trump and Desantis are in jail, Trump pays all of his taxes, and the complete and accurate Epstein files are released.

          I love how the right is so afraid of Walz. I doubt he’ll run for president, he’s too honest, so work on someone else.

    • arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      1 天前

      I didn’t know refusing to give into their illegal requests was “a sick burn” but okay sure