Things ARE getting Worse by the Hour…
It appears there IS a REVOLT going on in the Justice Dept. over the micro managing of the ICE and Custom Border Patrol shooting deaths in Minneapolis and so called ‘fraud’ investigation’s aimed at the Minnesota Democratic Official’s…
Efforts the political leadership in the White House ARE going against the lawyers of Justice Dept. in that state who are overwhelmed and whipsawed by political interference…
This is NOT NEW….
There HAS BEEN a constant wave of resignations by career government workers since Trump was sworn in more than a year ago…
There ARE SERIOUS Legal , Law and Criminal questions being on the table in the shooting deaths in Minnesota and the political ‘revenge’ efforts..
Those within the US government who aren’t politically driven are stuck in the middle between .Federal Judges, White House Political operatives and Ballooning case loads…
This situation has spread across the country as amateur Trump political types with little or no experience try to change the culture and operations of things in place for decades….
At least one prosecutor in the office’s criminal division has resigned since a meeting this week with Rosen during which the prosecutors aired their concerns, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter that has not been made public.
The threat of further resignations is the latest sign of how the federal judicial system in Minnesota has begun to crack under the strain imposed by the administration’s immigration enforcement surge in the state. On Wednesday, the chief federal district judge in the state wrote that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had violated 96 court orders since launching the crackdown in Minnesota, dubbed Operation Metro Surge.
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence,” Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz wrote….
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The U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota has been in turmoil since the administration sidelined the office in the investigations around the shootings of Good and Pretti, who were shot 2½ weeks apart during confrontations with immigration officers in Minneapolis.
At least a half-dozen prosecutors in the office — including the second-in-command — resigned earlier this month after top Justice Department officials told prosecutors not to investigate the shooting of Good but instead try to build a case against her partner…
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In the aftermath of those resignations, the Justice Department sent prosecutors from other Midwestern states to help deal with the swelling caseload in Minnesota. The severe staffing shortage in the office is expected to worsen in the coming weeks as more prosecutors from the office’s criminal and civil divisions resign.
The Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office is down to about half of its full staffing level of approximately 70 lawyers. At least some of the resignations occurred in the final months of the Biden administration before President Donald Trump took office…
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In 2025, Justice Connection, an advocacy group that has been tracking departures, estimates that at least 5,500 people — not all of them attorneys — had quit the department, been fired or taken a buyout offered by the Trump administration.
The department has struggled to find qualified candidates to fill these vacancies….
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