Minnesota is abiding by the law as written.

We, under the 10th Amendment, the federal government doesn't have the authority to convert

us into its deputies.

We have the right as a state, as a co-sovereign, to do our own business with our own tax

money. And what the federal government has

done is said, well, if you don't do it our way, we're going to saturate your state with

4,000 ICE agents until you cry uncle and obey up. And that's unconstitutional and illegal.

Hi again, everybody.

It's five o'clock in New York.

That's Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison

on the imperative of states to exercise

their legal and constitutional authorities

and stand up against Donald Trump

and his administration's apparent attempts

to shut states out of investigations

into the deaths, the killings of their citizens at the hands of Donald Trump's ICE agents.

It comes as governors across our country have pushed back against the Trump administration's

attempts to supersede the authority of state elected officials, something Republicans used to care about.

With even some Republican governors, like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Vermont Governor Phil Scott,

and Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stick calling for restraint from Donald Trump's ICE in the wake of the killing of Alex Pready by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis.

Blue State governors are readying themselves, girding themselves really, for their states to possibly be Donald Trump's next target.

They're preparing every tool in their legal arsenals to fight back.

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