Today, an order was unsealed wherein the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota took the extremely rare step of granting Attorney General Ellison’s motion to quash subpoenas issued to him and other Minnesota officials by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on January 20, 2026, which the DOJ claimed were part of a criminal investigation into Minnesota officials for obstructing federal immigration enforcement actions. However, in its ruling, the court found that the “dominant purpose of the challenged subpoenas is to coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so.”

"The facts are clear: the Trump administration is targeting me because I’m standing up for the people of Minnesota. In America, we settle our political differences at the ballot box, and it should disturb every American that Donald Trump is weaponizing the criminal justice system against people he disagrees with. No matter how much Donald Trump threatens, targets, and attacks me, I will never stop working to protect Minnesotans from Trump’s abuses of power.” – AG Ellison