If it's true that Pam Bondi said she would pull ICE out of Minneapolis in exchange for "the voter files"

[Augiedog]

Voter files? She is willing to kill more Minnesotans for some trove of voter files? What kind of demonic government have we set loose upon ourselves

That is a criminal act. Extortion, blackmail, intimidation of a government official. Can you spell FELONY? Bondi…Hello…?

Basically she is saying that her undertrained whacko psychopathic, but well armed and able to hit a human target at point blank range, ICE agents will continue to plague Minneapolis until the voter records are turned over.

[Initech]

1. And I will gladly tell them where they can shove those voter records!

[RandySF]

2. Could be a criminal offense.

Not clear on the law but any statute of limitation would go beyond 2029.

[liberal N proud]

5. Extortion for starter

[vapor2]

7. And her letter will serve as clear evidence

They are suing those states who refused to turn over voter rolls. They fucking want to rig the election at ANY and ALL costs

[blm]

3. She's holding Minn. citizens' lives hostage for Trump"s ransom demands.

[liberal N proud]

4. The entire operation is to extort the states out of election database

They are laying the groundwork to effect the elections on an epic scale.

[Johonny]

6. Its extortion

A criminal offense. Maybe even racketeering

[JustAnotherGen]

8. They want to rig Minnesota

Minnesota - Don lost by 5 points. Everything is up in MN in 2026. They want MN to be red.

Now if she will put it in a letter .. . what is being said and done behind closed doors?

What are they up.to?

[mysteryowl]

9. Our next Democratic US AG

Had better prosecute the criminals from this regime!
We cannot ever have another Garland. Never!

[Volaris]

10. Anyone who isnt willing to publicly state that job should go to Jack Smith, isnt getting my vote

[mysteryowl]

11. Yes, Jack Smith would be a very good choice.

[lastlib]

13. I agree Mr. Smith would be an excellent choice, but....

I disagree that candidates should state it publicly in advance. Bad tactics, and could be harmful to Mr. Smith.

[lastlib]

12. EvaBlondi doesn't have authority to pull ICE out....

(that rests with DHS/Krusty Gnome and The Felon/Rapist in the White House), so her offer is void, cannot--MUST NOT be accepted! It's a ruse.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. MaddowBlog-Minnesota quickly rejects AG Pam Bondi's request for the state's voter rolls

Minnesota’s secretary of state accused Bondi of making an “unlawful request a part of an apparent ransom to pay for our state’s peace and security.”

Link to tweet

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/minnesota-quickly-rejects-ag-pam-bondis-request-for-the-states-voter-rolls

But that’s not all she did. The same day, the U.S. attorney general sent a three-page letter to Minnesota’s Democratic governor, sketching out three demands — what Bondi characterized as “common sense solutions” — that she asked Walz to obey.

Specifically, she directed Walz to (1) repeal Minnesota’s “sanctuary policies”; (2) disclose more information related to the state’s social insurance programs that became the subject of a fraud investigation; and (3) turn over the state’s voter registration records to the Trump administration.
The governor appeared unimpressed with the correspondence. “I would just give a pro tip to the attorney general: There’s 2 million documents in the Epstein files we’re still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those,” Walz said at a Sunday news conference.

Around the same time, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon issued a statement of his own, specifically related to Bondi’s attempts to acquire the state’s voter rolls:

The answer to Attorney General Bondi’s request is no. Her letter is an outrageous attempt to coerce Minnesota into giving the federal government private data on millions of U.S. Citizens in violation of state and federal law. This comes after repeated and failed attempts by the DOJ to pressure my office into providing the same data. […]

Our position on the federal government’s request to access Minnesota voting records starts and ends with the law. The law does not give the federal government the authority to obtain this private data. … In Minnesota, we will continue to follow the letter of the law, which requires us to protect the private data of our voters.

The Democratic secretary of state’s statement added, “It is deeply disturbing that the U.S. Attorney General would make this unlawful request a part of an apparent ransom to pay for our state’s peace and security. More broadly, the federal government must end the unprecedented and deadly occupation of our state immediately.”