Joe Thompson, the career U.S. Justice Department attorney best known for prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota, has resigned along with other experienced attorneys at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The move comes after top Justice Department officials pushed the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good, the person shot and killed last week by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, MPR News has learned.
Thompson, 47, also objected to the DOJ’s decision to exclude the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the investigation into the shooting and the department’s reluctance to investigate Ross, according to a person familiar with Thompson’s decision.
Veteran assistant U.S. attorneys Melinda Williams, Harry Jacobs, and Thomas Calhoun-Lopez also resigned. The prosecutors were also concerned that immigration enforcement is diverting resources away from prosecuting major fraud cases in the state.
Minnesota hasn’t voted for a republican presidential candidate in over 50 years and we were the only state that didn’t vote for Reagan in 1984, so you can fuck all the way off with accusations of Minnesotans not voting. (We also consistently rank in the top 5 states for voter turnout, so you’re wrong on all counts on this one.)
Minnesota isn’t the whole country, it’s fair share would have and it’d be no better than 65% turnout as well.
Cool, again I said the whole country and it’s been consistently shit across the board.
That’s great, but again, is it over 65 and is the state the whole country?
No I’m not, you just made it about you and Minnesota.
Minnesota is where the ICE crackdown is going on, so I made the assumption that you were talking about us. And yes, the Minnesota voter turnout averages about 70%.
We have fought for the progressive policies and programs that have made our state a target of the regime, so getting lumped in with the states that did vote for this is insulting.
Well, while you think about the insult, think also about the fear and disruption those overseas, who had no say in this, have gone through such as Venezuelan fishermen and Greenlanders. All which could have been fixed by voting. Yes, I know, Minnesota and shit.
Fortunately it looks as if something seems to be rolling in respect to stopping Trump on Greenland.
I am thoroughly ashamed of my country and I have been doing what I can to help those around me. I have no control over what the federal government does and I don’t really have much influence to wield. In a few months, I’ll be a physician and I can use that title and the power and privilege that comes with it to speak louder, but right now, as a student in the middle of the Twin Cities, there’s not much I can do.