Overview
- The president warned he could use the Insurrection Act to send military forces if Minnesota leaders do not, in his words, restore order in Minneapolis.
- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz said they will take any unilateral deployment to court.
- Protests surged after ICE operations that killed Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 and, on Wednesday, left a Venezuelan man wounded, with DHS stating the latter shooting followed an attack on an agent.
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said about 3,000 federal personnel now outnumber the city’s roughly 600 police officers and called for the federal presence to end.
- The Insurrection Act is rarely invoked, does not authorize martial law, and experts caution that using it here would pose serious legal and political risks.