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US Justice Department files complaint against Minnesota judges who gave interviews about immigration surge
The complaint says seven Minnesota judges made improper and political comments to The New York Times and seeks their recusal from Department of Homeland Security cases.
- On Wednesday, Attorney General Todd Blanche filed a judicial misconduct complaint against Minnesota federal judges, alleging they violated ethics rules by criticizing the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge in The New York Times.
- Operation Metro Surge deployed more than 3,000 immigration authorities to Minnesota starting in December 2025, sparking widespread protests and prompting federal judges to identify 96 court order violations in 74 cases.
- District Judges Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim sat for interviews where they described the operation as a threat to democracy and questioned whether the administration was arresting dangerous criminals.
- Calling the judges' comments "overtly political" and a "flagrant violation," Attorney General Blanche requested the Eighth Circuit Court investigate and force recusal from all Department of Homeland Security cases.
- The filing follows a similar misconduct complaint against a federal judge last year, as the administration continues its aggressive stance against what it calls "activist judges" in ongoing legal battles.
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After violent clashes during deportation raids in Minnesota, several U.S. judges see the rule of law in danger. According to an article in the New York Times that collects these critical voices, the U.S. government imposes disciplinary measures.
The U.S. government wants judges to take measures that they have been critical of ICE raids. One of them had called operations a threat to the rule of law.
·Germany
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Seven federal judges from Minnesota spoke publicly about the chaos that ICE raids had triggered in the court system. Trump's Ministry of Justice is now seeking disciplinary action against them.
·Hamburg, Germany
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Minnesota's leading federal judge criticized ICE in an interview at the New York Times.
·Montreal, Canada
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