Law Enforcement
January 19, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is appealing a federal district court decision that seeks to handcuff ICE operations in Minnesota. The decision was issued Friday by Judge Kate Menendez, a Biden appointee. Scott posted her 83-page decision at the bottom of this post. The DOJ filed their notice of appeal to the federal 8th circuit today, on the federal holiday. There are at least two ways of looking at
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January 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I don’t see much coverage of the illegal aliens our state and local authorities are pleased to call our neighbors. Or “neighbors,” like the denizens of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Washington Examiner editor Hugo Gurdon takes the measure of our local leaders on this score in “Democrats — the party of lawbreaking.” Who exactly are our “neighbors”? You may have to track them down on the DHS feed on X. DHS
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January 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
On December 17 six named plaintiffs filed a purported class action lawsuit in federal court here seeking declaratory and injuncitve relief against Kristi Noem et al. The case is styled Tincher v. Noem. The complaint in the lawsuit is accessible here. It alleges a variety of illegal misconduct by ICE officers against the named plaintiffs. The lawsuit is a project of the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union
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January 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Robby Starbuck formulates an answer to the Leninist question What is to be done?. It is the question that is naturally raised by the resistance of Minnesota’s state and local authorities to federal law enforcement. In the X post below Starbuck responds to the Leninist question: • Invoke the insurrection act • Military arrests rioters and politicians • ICE triples presence and deports maximum # of illegals while DHS denaturalizes
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January 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Alluding to the title of Thomas Frank’s book on Kansas, Michael Barone devotes his weekly column to the question on the minds of many thinking people: “What’s the matter with Minnesota?” He arrives at a conclusion that we don’t see much of in the mainstream press, here or elewhere. I’m not sure what he’s referring to in his final paragraph with respect to legal theories occasionally advanced by the Trump
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January 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
On December 17 six named plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in federal court here seeking declaratory and injuncitve relief against Kristi Noem et al. The case is styled Tincher v. Noem. The complaint in the lawsuit is accessible here. It alleges a variety of illegal misconduct by ICE officers against plaintiffs. The lawsuit is a project of the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (MCLU). MCLU has
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January 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Joe Thompson has reportedly resigned from his position in the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota. Over his years in the office he served as head of the Fraud and Public Corruption section by designation of former United States Attorney Andrew Luger, as Acting United States Attorney by appointment of President Trump, and as First Assistant United States Attorney by designation of current United States
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January 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In Volume V of Martin Gilbert’s monumental biography of Churchill (Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth: 1922-1939), we learn that an enormous poster appeared in the Strand and at other prominent points around London in the last week of July 1939. Placed by an advertising agent who was anxious “to get people thinking of the reinstatement of Churchill,” the poster asked simply: “What price Churchill?” (A photograph of the
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January 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The state of Minnesota has reportedly filed suit in federal court here to stop the enfocement of federal immigration law that state and local authorities “would prefer not to.” The linked NBC News story quotes the hustler who holds the office of Minnesota Attorney General: “We allege that the obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a
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January 9, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The establishment has lined up to attack ICE and eulogize Renee Good. All the best people tell us that the ICE agent murdered Good: Governor Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey, as far as I have seen all other Democratic Party politicians, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Minnesota Star Tribune, various television networks, and so on. The most nauseating instance of the phalanx of anti-law enforcement sentiment may
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January 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The perspective of the ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good is depicted in a previously unreleased video of the incident. Alpha News obtained a copy and posted it to X (below). It appears to remove the element of ambiguity that could be generated from the previously posted videos. This is different. The driver was obstrucing ICE, disobeying a lawful order to get out of the car, and engaging in
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January 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
As William Buckley used to say, herewith a few thoughts…mine on the death of Renee Nicole Good and related events. Minnesota’s state and local authorities — Governor Walz, Attorney General Ellison, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, to take only the leading figures — have all but explictly called for resistance to federal law enforcement in Minnesota. Walz, for example, has referred to ICE as the Gestapo and called for “a
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January 8, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I’ve saved this January 5 Department of Justice press release to present as a case study in the atmosphere of criminality and resistance with which federal law enforcement is contending in the Twin Cities: Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero…has been charged by indictment with two counts of Assault on a Federal Officer with a Dangerous Weapon and one count of Assault on a Federal Officer, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.
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December 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Bill Glahn, Lou Raguse, and other members of the local Twin Cities press have been covering the massive public-programs fraud committed by a large cast of almost exclusively Somali perpetrators for a while now. For those just tuning in, Bill points out — to take one example — that KSTP’s Jay Kolls knocked on alleged daycare doors in this January 2025 story. YouTuber Nick Shirley has brought the daycare story
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December 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Local law enforcement is coming under heavy pressure as, after four days, they have been unable to apprehend a man who walked into a ground-floor classroom at Brown University, fired 40 or more rounds from a 9 mm pistol, and simply walked away. I have seen no reference to a silencer, so I assume the shooter made a lot of noise. (And silenced bullets are not silent, either.) It was
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December 12, 2025 — Bill Glahn
The Twin Cities region of Minnesota is experiencing a renewed surge from immigration authorities, a fallout of the multi-billion-dollar welfare frauds, perpetrated predominantly by individuals of Somali ethnicity. Like other left-wing metropolitan areas of America, the local surge immediately became confrontational. From KARE-11 TV (NBC), FBI investigating after federal agent allegedly kidnapped by detainee in Minnesota: It’s unclear so far what led to this situation, but police say multiple 911
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December 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
David Zimmer told the appalling story of Adbimahat Bille Mohamed at AmericanExperiment.org. Briefly, Mohamed is a serial rapist. In 2017, he raped a 15-year-old girl. He was not charged in the initial investigation, but was later identified through DNA. In 2024, he raped another woman. These are some of the charges he faced: During the pre-trial phase of the May 2024 rape case, Mohamed’s DNA sample was entered into the
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