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During an earlier hearing, Judge Cobb told the Department of Homeland Security that she would need to see more evidence proving that the agency has, in fact, completely changed its funding stream. Without this evidence, Cobb said, it would appear that the agency has blatantly disregarded and violated her previous order regarding congressional visitation rights.
“We don’t think the court order is relevant anymore to the present day, and it is currently inflicting present day harms,” said Aiden Buzzetti, the president of the 1776 Project Foundation.
“As a result of this surge, municipalities have been forced to divert local law enforcement resources away from their normal public safety duties, emergency responder resources have been strained, schools have been forced into lockdowns and closures, businesses have been forced to close, and the rights of Minnesotans have been violated time and time again,” Ellison’s office said.
The activists in the case are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. In a statement, the ACLU said that government officials have violated their clients’ constitutional rights, as well as the rights of other protesters throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul.
“DHS’s crude dragnet ensnares non-citizens, including individuals with immigration status, without warrants or any lawful basis for arrest,” the lawsuit says. “And its discriminatory practices also sweep in numerous US citizens in the process, shackling them and scanning their faces while ignoring documentation of US citizenship.”
The ex-wife of a congressional aide has filed a lawsuit against former U.S. Sen. Krysten Sinema, claiming that an alleged affair spelled the end for Matthew and Heather Ammel’s marriage. According to CBS News, the lawsuit claims that the Ammels had a “good and loving marriage” with “genuine love and affection” before Sinema interfered. Attorneys
The lawsuit suggests that, before Union County took over Clark’s police operations in 2025, local leaders issued officers with explicit instructions to keep Black people away from and out of the town.
“This Department of Justice has now sued 24 states for failing to provide voter roll data and will continue filing lawsuits to protect American elections,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a press release. “Accurate voter rolls are the foundation of election integrity, and any state that fails to meet this basic obligation of transparency can expect to see us in court.”
The states’ lawsuit argues that the Department of Health and Human Services, at least by itself, lacks the authority to impose such conditions on the disbursal of federal funds. Instead, the attorneys general say, the Trump administration is merely attempting to coerce states into supporting a discriminatory agenda.
“The Constitution demands such respect, and the executive may not unilaterally usurp the authority over elections it seeks to do so here,” Carter wrote.