A federal judge on Saturday declined to immediately halt Operation Metro Surge. This allows the federal immigration enforcement effort to continue in Minnesota while a broader legal challenge plays out.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez denied a request from Minnesota officials for a temporary restraining order. However, her heart wasn’t in it. She described the events as “profound and even heartbreaking” consequences for communities in the state.
She said, “Those are not the only harms to be considered,” however.
The harms arise when she notes that Minnesota cannot break the law.
She Wrote:
To that end, Plaintiffs filed a Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (Dkt. 7), which the Court converted to a motion for a preliminary injunction (Dkt. 21). The Court pauses to observe what it is not deciding.
At this stage, the Court makes no final determination on the merits of any claims asserted by Plaintiffs. Nor does the Court offer any opinion about the wisdom of Operation Metro Surge. And the legality of many of the specific actions taken by federal agents during the operation is not before the Court in this case.
Instead, the Court only decides whether to grant the extraordinary remedy of a preliminary injunction halting a federal law enforcement operation based upon the Tenth Amendment. In answering this question, the Court must view Plaintiffs’ claims through the lens of the specific legal framework they invoke, and, having done so, finds that Plaintiffs have not met their burden. For the reasons discussed below, the motion is denied.
Minnesota needs a new Attorney General. Keith Ellison doesn’t cut it.
“The Eighth Circuit has recently reiterated that an entry or injunction barring the federal government from enforcing federal law imposes significant harm on the government,” the judge wrote.
“The inferences to be drawn regarding the allegedly coercive purpose of Operation Metro Surge are not as one-sided as Plaintiffs suggest,” she wrote, rejecting the state’s claim that the operation was being carried out “in brazenly lawless ways” to force changes in state and local law.
The judge is an AWFUL: a white, female, possibly urban, liberal. The pinko commies pulled the liberals into their far-left vision for the USA. Despite her AWFLness, she recognized the law in this case.
ICE is removing a lot of horrid criminals.
A judge that is not happy to respect what the law says should not be a judge.