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.

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    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.

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      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.