Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison won a key victory yesterday when a Minnesota federal judge — Judge Eric Tostrud, who was appointed by President Trump — dismissed the September 2025 lawsuit that the Trump Administration filed against him, the State of Minnesota, and several local governments in an attempt to compel them to enforce the Administration’s failed immigration-enforcement policies, in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the bedrock constitutional principle of federalism. Attorney General Ellison’s office successfully defended the State and the Attorney General in the lawsuit.

“The court’s clear ruling today reaffirmed the longstanding principle that the federal government cannot force Minnesota or any state to participate in its misguided immigration-enforcement efforts or commandeer state resources for it. State sovereignty and federalism are bedrock principles that lie at the very heart of our federal and state constitutions, and the court once again affirmed them today. The Trump Administration, however, has no regard for this constitutional principle, so it nonetheless filed this lawsuit as part of its ongoing war against the people of Minnesota and its efforts to intimidate us into submission. They keep learning over and over that the people of Minnesota won’t be intimidated. Nor will I.” – AG Ellison