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Minnesota
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 249 stories to Minnesota since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Minnesota.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Minnesota
10 storiesJustice Department files misconduct complaint against seven Minnesota federal judges who spoke to the New York Times about ICE's 96 court-order violations in January.
Demands recusal from all DHS cases
Former ICE agent Christian Castro surrenders in Minneapolis on assault charges for shooting a legal immigrant, months after Texas Gov. Abbott stalled his extradition.
$200,000 bail, federal court Friday
Justice Department blocks civil rights charges against ICE agent Christian Castro, who shot a Venezuelan immigrant through a Minneapolis door, over the prosecutor's "strongest possible" objections, ProPublica reports.
Downgraded to false statements charge
Trump shares debunked conspiracy theory that Minnesota Gov. Walz ordered killing of state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home as her children beg him to remove the post.
GOP and DFL lawmakers both condemned
DHS orders arrest and indefinite detention of an estimated 100,000 legal refugees who lack green cards, months after the administration halted the green card process for their countries.
Froze green cards, then detained them
AG Bondi tells Minn. Gov. Walz ICE will leave only if the state shares Medicaid and SNAP records, repeals sanctuary policies, and gives DOJ access to voter rolls; Minnesota Secretary of State calls it "ransom."
31 states have refused voter data requests
Border Patrol agents pin Minneapolis nurse to ground, fire multiple shots into his back; second American killed on video in 17 days during immigration crackdown.
State investigators denied scene access again
Justice Department issues grand jury subpoenas to Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey in criminal investigation opened after both publicly condemned ICE operations in Minneapolis.
3,000 federal agents now deployed
Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act to deploy military against Minnesota protesters, a power last used unilaterally in 1965 to protect civil rights marchers.
3,000 federal agents already deployed
ICE arrests dozens of refugees in Minnesota who entered legally and passed security screenings, transfers them to Texas detention after administration suspended the green card process they're accused of not completing.
About 100 detained & transferred to Texas
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesSix federal prosecutors resign in Minnesota after Justice Department pushed investigation into Renee Good's widow while refusing to open civil rights probe into agent who killed her.
Lead fraud prosecutor among those quitting
ICE releases Guatemalan asylum seeker Andrea Pedro-Francisco after four months without surgery for a dangerous ovarian cyst, following a senator's call to DHS.
Detained on her way to work
Hennepin County charges ICE officer Christian Castro with four felony assault counts for firing through Minneapolis home's front door during Jan. 14 chase.
Bullet lodged in child's bedroom wall
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