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The article describes the suit, and explains why it deserves to prevail.

Ilya Somin | 1.30.2026 12:58 PM

Earlier today, Lawfare published my article "Minnesota's Compelling 10th Amendment Case Against Trump's ICE Surge." Here is an excerpt:

The federal government's brutal and often illegal use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and other federal agents in Minnesota has generated extensive litigation. On Jan. 12, one particularly crucial case was filed by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, arguing that the federal Metro Surge operation—deploying thousands of ICE and other federal agents to the Twin Cities—violates the 10th Amendment. That amendment states that "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In a series of decisions supported primarily by conservative justices, such as Printz v. United States (1997) (written by conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia), the Supreme Court has held that the federal government cannot "commandeer" state and local........

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