Overview
- In a letter to Minnesota’s governor, Attorney General Pam Bondi asked to grant the DOJ Civil Rights Division access to state voter rolls and to share Medicaid and SNAP records.
- The correspondence also urged repeal of sanctuary policies and full cooperation with ICE, which Bondi framed as steps to restore public safety and combat fraud.
- The letter followed the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, which has intensified scrutiny of federal operations in the city.
- Senator Chris Murphy claimed on X that ICE presence was being conditioned on Minnesota turning over its voter database to President Trump, but the letter does not explicitly state such a condition.
- Critics accused Bondi of seeking to centralize sensitive voter data for partisan aims, while Bondi argued the access would support fraud investigations and bolster confidence in elections.