“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.”
“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.
“We allege that DHS’s use of excessive and lethal force, their warrantless, racist arrests, their targeting of our courts, our churches, houses of worship and schools are a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act on arbitrary and capricious federal actions,” Ellison said. “And we ask that the courts will end the surge of thousands of DHS agents in Minnesota.”
The lawsuit cl;aims that Minnesota requires hiring managers to “jump through additional hoops to hire employees with disfavored skin colors or sex chromosomes.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit, characterized the funding freeze as an element of an ongoing “campaign of chaos and retribution” that will disproportionately harm “the most vulnerable families.”
“I was deployed all over the world, and have trained other servicemembers on the line between military and civilian law enforcement,” Weninger said in a statement. “South Carolina’s National Guardsmen should not be asked to undertake illegal deployments, or be used to score political points by our government.”
“This Department of Justice has now sued 23 states for failing to provide voter roll data and will continue filing lawsuits to protect American elections,” 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.”
“[T]he TEA appears to mandate investigations only for school personnel voicing criticism of the Commissioner’s preferred political figure,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Congress created the CFPB, funded it, and gave it a clear mission: protect consumers,” Jackson said in a statement. “No agency official has the authority to override that decision. This lawsuit is about making sure consumers don’t lose a watchdog that has already returned billions of dollars to millions of people who were unfairly treated.”