The Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, speaks on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in the Royal Sonesta in downtown Minneapolis, Minn.
When President Donald Trump’s execution in the surveys in 2024 signaled a possible re -election, reading Keith Ellison and Celly Democratic lawyers General Read Project 2025 and began to prepare, in particular when Trump, hired the most vital author of the planning document.
They divided the documents into sections and collected their employees to be ready with complaints.
When Russell vougt and the Office for Management and Household Funded the distribution of certain federal funds – as shown in project in 2025 – Ellison and others were ready for democratic AGs.
The next day they sued the financing.
“They didn’t hide the ball,” said Ellison in a far -reaching interview with the status newsroom in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
In the first five months of the President’s second term, Ellison and his colleagues have committed more than two dozen lawsuits against measures by the Trump administration. The AGs have sued for cuts to federal authorities, tariffs, dugs, docs access to government data, try to end the citizenship of birth rights.
They also went on tour to employ Blue countries to advertise their services and hear the voters’ concerns.
The missions are high, said Ellison: the fate of multirassic democracy.
Ellison, who worked for a dozen years in the congress in Minnesotas 5. District in Minnesota, said the states were a sovereign bulwark against federal power.
The Democratic Attorney General not only fight against a republican -controlled executive, but also a conservative majority at the Supreme Court of the United States. According to Ellison’s view, the latest decisions by the Roberts Court – especially in 303 imaginative against Elenis, in which the court decided that a business owner could not be obliged to serve a gay couple – that the country moves towards legal segregation.
“We are a whisper by Jim Crow,” said Ellison.
Nevertheless, Ellison was bullish, celebrated the AGS series of Siegen and predicted that even conservative judges of the Supreme Court will resist the Trump government’s attack on the rule of law and the institution of the court itself.
The democratic AGs could benefit from a weakened Ministry of Justice under Trump, said Ellison. The agency that defends the federal government in court Bleeding lawyers long -standing personnel lawyersBoth through shots and through resignation.
Ellison emphasized that many of the guidelines issued by Trump in his first months of office would be legal if they were adopted by the congress. Instead, the president leads the country through “Edict” and “proclamation”, said Ellison.
“Our democracy is not perfect,” said Ellison, “but you will miss it when it is gone and Trump gave you a look at it.”
