BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota threatens criminal contempt, if necessary, to address ICE noncompliance in an order calling out U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's response to Schiltz's earlier questions about noncompliance with court orders. "ICE will comply with this Court's orders."

The new dismissals are in addition to at least three other instances of protesters who had charges dismissed in January and February.

Minnesota’s federal judiciary has issued another civil contempt finding against the U.S. government tied to violations of orders in immigration cases that continue to flood the courts.

I’ve got a new paper draft discussing law enforcement agencies’ efforts to obscure their officers’ identities. Including but not limited to masked DHS agents,with a couple ideas for lawyers interested in litigating these practices. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Federal officials for days claimed a snow shovel and broom attack led an agent to shoot one of the men in the leg.

No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

JUST IN: 2 school systems in MN file suit to block ICE enforcement near schools. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

Read SCHILTZ’s full order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"[W]hat they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state." via @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Full story: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by 12 agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than 2 days. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/s...

Sober, precise read of relevant law from Seth Stoughton (who I don't think is on here), a former colleague and the best police lawyer I know: verdict.justia.com/2026/01/09/t...

This is correct. Immunity for federal agents accused of state crimes is complex, but it is certainly not “absolute.”

"Residents will be able to submit evidence through this link...,posted on social media and on our website. The most important element of this situation is collecting and preserving the maximum amount of evidence so a case file can be as complete as possible." www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...

This is not the law.

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Takeaways from the first St. Thomas game at Lee & Penny Anderson Arena https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/takeaways-from-the-first-st-thomas-game-at-lee-penny-anderson-arena

FULL STORY: Finding that federal agents repeatedly used force that “shocks the conscience” and lied about their actions, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction designed to permanently rein in agents’ use of tear gas and pepper balls. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/f...

Another day, another failure by prosecutors to secure an indictment against ICE protestors in Chicago. shero.substack.com/p/less-than-...

Ever wondered what typically happens when police officers are charged for killing people on duty? I’m excited to finally share the results of a multi-year study of all known US prosecutions of non-federal officers for homicide-related crimes between 2013-2023. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My piece Overbroad Protest Laws is now out in the Columbia Law Review. I hope it’s useful to the many attorneys and advocates who will be defending the First Amendment rights of protesters in weeks and years to come. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🧵 A new public database, the Police Records Access Project, now makes 1.5 million pages of public records on police use of force and misconduct in California searchable for the first time. The project was led by @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social, @ucbids.bsky.social, and Stanford's Big Local News.

Happy 100th birthday to the best coach in Buffalo Bills history and my personal hero when I was 12 years old! www.nytimes.com/athletic/652...

Shortly after taking office, Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke quietly scrapped two lengthy lists of tarnished police officers maintained by her predecessor to fulfill the office’s constitutional obligations and prevent wrongful convictions.

A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.

Via @fiona-ndre.bsky.social: For years, persecuted Christians abroad — including Iranian Christians — has been a cause célèbre on the right, including Trump. But this week, CBP arrested Iranian Christian asylum-seekers as their pastor looked on, despondent. religionnews.com/2025/06/27/p...

Today, five years since George Floyd’s murder, the Right’s lionization of Derek Chauvin is front page news. To commemorate the day a different way, read this tremendous book that explores who George Floyd was & the structural contributors to his death. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703358...

The unfathomable cruelty.

My article Red Flag Officers, which asks whether red flag gun laws can serve as a model for protecting the public from law enforcement officers with histories of violence, is now published: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

“A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025.” (REUTERS/Paul Ratje) www.reuters.com/world/americ...

“This is a department with a long history of using coercion and deception to get people charged that shouldn’t have been,” says law professor Rachel Moran, urging Chicago to not leave it up to police to make charging decisions without overview. boltsmag.org/cook-co...

The Kyiv Independent Editorial: "It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up." kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...

The case against former LA prosecutor Diana Teran - the prosecutor charged w/hacking over her attempts to comply with Brady - is "a telling look at how attempts to 'police the police' can appear to law enforcement as an existential threat," @psfrench.bsky.social writes: boltsmag.org/the-curious-...

Niece and nephew in the @nytimes.com for the most Moran reason possible. Go Bills!! @buffalo-bills.bsky.social

This is an amazing quote, from a Jan 6 prisoner who is refusing Trump’s pardon. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This story is gut wrenching.

POLICE REFORM: The state settlement agreement for Minneapolis Police was a big deal — and the new federal reform plan covers a lot of the same ground. BUT here are 6 key ways the DOJ's consent decree goes further >> www.axios.com/local/twin-c...