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Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor

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I lived my whole life in the twin cities and have a lot of friends, US citizens, who are too scared to go out to eat right now because of the ICE raids. If that wasn’t the point it is certainly the effect. I applaud Walz and Frey, and I will be ranking Frey first next time he’s up for reelection. Something tells me though he will be on to bigger things than mayor of Minneapolis.

> The subpoenas suggest that the Justice Department is examining whether Walz’s and Frey’s public statements disparaging the surge of officers and federal actions have amounted to criminal interference in law enforcement work.

The Justice department is literally arguing that free speech is enough to impede an investigation.

This will surely be shot down in court, but this is just all noise to try to interfere in MN's midterm elections.

Sounds similar to this case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States?wprov...

“In 1969, Schenck was largely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which limited the scope of speech that the government may ban to that directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot).”

Yeah, pure theatrics. Pretty standard for this administration.

I understand people not wanting to follow the news lately and the inclination in just tuning it out. But some things you can't tune out because by tuning it out the conditions of the world can deteriorate from our complacency.

How sad is it to see the US position as a leader building alliances completely fall apart under the current administration? Pretty heartbreaking. The news today about sums up the disappointment.

"Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking to reporters in Beijing on Friday after making a preliminary deal with China on a range of issues, said Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is 'more multi-faceted' and much deeper than Canada's relationship with China — but noted that ties with China have become more predictable in recent months."

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2221259/carney-reach...

The USA is very vulnerable to culture wars and political division, that stymie any real progress.

No, the USA is very vulnerable to reactionary ideas that stymie real progress.

All deplorable all the time. Endless endless boot stomping on the face of Democracy, the constitution, & it's people.

Hopefully this gets thrown out fast, like 70% of what these nasty vipers do.

I'd love to know who downvoted the above comment and why. No-one who believes that democracy in the US is worth preserving can possibly support what's going on at the moment.

A lot of people here are going to be triggered by the word "deplorable" because a mean lady said it years ago.

Pretty accurate descriptor after all this time. She was proven right by their actions.

Kamala as well.

I'm libertarian, not a fan of Hillary, and thought that comment was politically ham-fisted at the time. But at this point I think we can all agree that she was right.

Why is this flagged?

"politics." Why do people keep asking questions they know the answer to?

probably because you find unflagged politics all up and down the hn feed...

why do people keep giving terrible answers to questions they must not know the answer to?

That just means the people flagging politics are biased and inconsistent, not that people don't flag politics.

We know they do. Numerous people have stated outright that they flag every thread they consider political, because they consider all political content to be off topic, and that they intend to continue doing so. And Hacker News is designed so that it only takes a few flags to apply to a thread.

But since you know seem to better, do please enlighten us all on the real answer.

This is a significant escalation and is meant to give the federal government grounds for invoking the Insurrection Act.

https://archive.ph/EPUiZ

He that claimed weaponization of the DOJ is eager to weaponize it [0]

Pure projection, 100% of the time.

> Trump Is Weaponizing the DOJ Just Like He Accused Democrats of Doing

> Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign season, Donald Trump accused his Democratic opponents—President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris—of using the levers of power against him.

> "The Biden regime's weaponization of our system of justice is straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show," he told rallygoers in March 2023 after being indicted in Manhattan for violating election law. In a September 2024 debate against Harris, Trump even blamed Democrats' rhetoric for the assassination attempt he survived weeks earlier, saying "I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me."

> But now that Trump is firmly ensconced back in office, his administration seems to have no interest in stopping government weaponization. Rather, it seems keen to wield that power for itself. Looking back now on Trump's complaints, it appears less that he was upset than that he was jealous.

Just for the record. 34 felony convictions and adjudicated rape.

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-weaponizing-doj-just-accuse...

There’s no point in looking into the logic or consistency of Donald’s words.

Just record his actions. Persecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Ignore everything he says.

He’s a broken person, the dictionary definition of a bully, and whose modus operandi is to inflict as much pain on his enemies as possible.

What a load. Run against Trump, have martial law declared, and get criminally investigated by a corrupt DoJ.

Only Trump deserves to be president.

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