CNN Legal Analyst Delivers Bad News to Anti-ICE Dems: Their Lawsuit Is About to Go Up in Flames

BLUF - Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis announced the suit that seeks to force the Trump administration to withdraw United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig predicted Monday that litigation by state and local officials in Minnesota against the Department of Homeland Security would fail.

KEY TAKE AWAY - The Supreme Court threw out multiple provisions of Arizona’s SB1070 legislation that sought to crack down on illegal immigration in the border state in 2012, citing the supremacy clause of the Constitution.

MINNESOTA UNDER SCRUTANY - Minnesota officials have come under fire for the failure of local authorities to respond to several violent incidents, including an attack on independent journalists Nick Sortor and Cam Higby. Tensions have increased since an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good while carrying out an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday.....Minnesota authorities would likely fail to make any charges stick against the ICE agent over the incident.