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Minnesota quickly rejects AG Pam Bondi’s request for the state’s voter rolls. Governor Walz says to work on the Epstein files. (www.ms.now)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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But that’s not all she did. The same day, the U.S. attorney general sent a three-page letter to Minnesota’s Democratic governor, sketching out three demands — what Bondi characterized as “common sense solutions” — that she asked Walz to obey.

Specifically, she directed Walz to (1) repeal Minnesota’s “sanctuary policies”; (2) disclose more information related to the state’s social insurance programs that became the subject of a fraud investigation; and (3) turn over the state’s voter registration records to the Trump administration.

The governor appeared unimpressed with the correspondence. “I would just give a pro tip to the attorney general: There’s 2 million documents in the Epstein files we’re still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those,” Walz said at a Sunday news conference.

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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wild that this dumb fuck Bondi thinks she has leverage in this situation to make demands.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It only shows how this isn't about Immigration, it's about creating political pressure and trying to win the upcoming elections.

"We'll stop doing stochastic terrorism if you turn over a list of all of the Democratic Party affiliated people so that we can target them directly."

Their public statements are digging themselves a deep hole, legally speaking (not, like Dropkick Murphys speaking)

e: removed all of the tracking URL crap from the link

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting perspective. Trump leaning on his lessons from working with the mob?

If they keep gaming the courts and depriving people of their legal protections I fear it will become more like the Dropkick Murphy's deep hole. I know there's lots of people on Lemmy that are fed up and are championing violence, and understandably so, but I'm sure any violence against the MAGA state will come a step costs.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I don't doubt that he learned a lot from Leonard Leo, who is very comfortable using coercive and arguably illegal tactics in the courts.

Though I'd disagree that everyone championing violence is a human being, social media manipulation by bots is a fact of life and pushing strife and division is literally a textbook tactic: Foundations of Geopolitics.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Minnesota quickly rejects AG Pam Bondi’s request for the state’s voter rolls.

That's a nice way of putting it...

Source: https://x.com/MinnesotaDFL/status/2015588624302067857

DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) is the official affiliate of the Democratic Party in Minnesota

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 25 points 2 months ago

Walz is a pro, and qualified to give that tip. Go Man!

[–] Innerworld@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You work on the Epstein files and I’ll work on the fraud. Deal?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He didn't do fraud himself, lol.