YES!!! MINNESOTA SUES BONDI, NOEM, DOJ AND DHS OVER KILLING OF RENEE GOOD AND ALEX PRETTI!!! (AND I HAVE THE FULL LAWSUIT FOR YOU)
This morning the State of Minnesota, along with the Hennepin County Attorney and the Superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension SUED DOJ, DHS, BONDI AND NOEM’S *SSES OFF!!!!
Now I know that a lot of you were worried that because the administration was obstructing their access to evidence and other information, that Minnesota wouldn’t be able to sue them. And if you remember, I promised you that they would be suing them. And here it is.
In their 43-page Complaint (of course included for Notes from the Front members), Minnesota lays out a *very* compelling case. To be clear, Minnesota is suing over the government’s failure to turn over evidence and their obstructionist actions in these killings; this is not the wrongful death lawsuit, the wrongful death lawsuit is being worked on by private attorneys for the families. THIS lawsuit is to force the DOJ, DHS, and Bondi and Noem personally, to turn over the evidence they have related to the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis (which in turn Minnesota will certainly want to share with the wrongful death lawyers, and equally certainly the government will want sealed and *not* shared with the wrongful death lawyers).
Minnesota also argues that DHS and DOJ are violating Minnesota’s Tenth Amendment rights to exercise the State’s own police powers within their borders. In fact, one example from the Complaint is “At the scene of the third shooting – the killing of Alex Pretti – federal immigration officers physically blocked investigators of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (“BCA”) from accessing the scene. That physical obstruction persisted even after state officials obtained a judicial warrant authorizing access to the scene.”
When you read this, you’ll see references to the case of Touhy. Touhy was a Supreme Court decision which essentially says that Federal agencies (such as DHS and the DOJ) *must* turn over records upon formal request (known as a “Touhy request”). However, it *also* says that each agency can promulgate its own Touhy regulations.
Of course DHS and DOJ stonewalled these requests, even though each agency’s Touhy regulations generally allowed the release of the requested information.
Says the Complaint, “Defendants’ responses to those requests -indeed, by and large, their refusal to respond at all – confirm that the federal government has adopted a policy and practice of refusing Minnesota authorities access to investigative materials relating to uses of force by federal immigration officers deployed to Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge. That policy has deprived state investigators of timely access to evidence in federal custody that is directly relevant to their investigations of potential violations of Minnesota criminal law.”
My best guess is that the Court will require the DOJ and DHS to turn over such evidence as meets certain criteria, they will appeal, and it will be upheld.
Notes from the Front members: The hot-off-the-presses Complaint is in your inbox now.
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