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- 内容摘要
- 法官撤销司法部对沃尔兹及其他官员的传票
- 特朗普政府要求获取相关信息，以调查是否存在干扰移民突击行动的行为
- 法官认为该调查的法律依据“荒唐可笑”
华盛顿6月22日路透电 — 一名美国法官认定，特朗普政府在今年早些时候该州移民执法行动达到顶峰之际，非法要求多名明尼苏达州官员提供信息，并裁定司法部滥用了调查程序。
根据周一公开的一份法庭命令，明尼苏达州联邦地区法官帕特里克·希尔茨的裁决撤销了向该州民主党州长蒂姆·沃尔兹办公室以及其他五个地方和州级办公室发出的传票。
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这一裁决实质上叫停了唐纳德·特朗普总统领导的司法部的一项调查，该调查旨在查明民主党官员是否在公开反对部署数千名特工开展驱逐围捕行动的过程中阻碍了移民执法。
曾由共和党总统乔治·W·布什任命的希尔茨写道，司法部为此次调查提供的法律依据“荒唐可笑”。
“法院认定，受到质疑的传票的主要目的是胁迫明尼苏达州官员协助联邦政府执行民事移民法，并因他们未能配合而对其进行骚扰和报复，”希尔茨写道。这份于6月17日签发的命令于周一公开。
司法部发言人表示，该部门“极其严肃地对待非法阻碍联邦执法行动的行为，并将继续完全依法行事以调查这些事项。”
与移民突击行动相关的传票
此次移民突击行动在明尼阿波利斯地区引发了多起与居民和活动人士的暴力冲突，包括1月份联邦特工枪杀两名美国公民。
这一裁决是最新一起认定特朗普政府司法部开展了以政治打压为目的的调查，其意图更多是骚扰反对者而非调查潜在罪行。华盛顿特区一名法官今年3月在叫停对时任美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的调查时也做出了类似裁决。
特朗普政府司法部要求获取与联邦移民行动相关的州和地方政策及指令的广泛信息。收到传票的人士包括明尼阿波利斯市长雅各布·弗雷和沃尔兹——特朗普经常嘲讽沃尔兹，而沃尔兹在2024年曾作为民主党人卡玛拉·哈里斯的副总统候选人参选。
沃尔兹在一份书面声明中表示，这一裁决是“法治和我们民主制度的胜利”。
同样收到传票的明尼苏达州总检察长、民主党人基思·埃里森对裁决表示欢迎。他在书面声明中说：“在美国，我们通过投票箱解决政治分歧，每个美国人都应该感到不安：唐纳德·特朗普正在将刑事司法系统武器化，对付那些与他政见不同的人。”
司法部于1月份发出传票，当时特朗普政府官员指责沃尔兹和其他官员蓄意破坏该州的移民与海关执法局行动。
沃尔兹公开鼓励民众拍摄ICE逮捕行动的视频，并赞扬了反对特朗普政府移民执法行动的抗议者。
司法部律师表示，此次调查的重点是州和地方官员是否违反了禁止阻碍联邦行动以及庇护非法居住在美国的移民的法律。
收到传票的人士在法庭上对传票提出质疑，称其发出的不当目的是报复政治对手并胁迫他们与联邦政府合作。
希尔茨发现，司法部几乎没有提供证据证明州和地方官员违反了任何法律。
“传票所寻求的信息与任何可能的刑事违规行为之间的关联从极其微弱到根本不存在，这一事实进一步证明，发出这些传票并非为了调查，而是为了骚扰、胁迫和报复，”法官写道。
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US judge shuts down DOJ immigration probe into Walz, Minnesota officials
2026-06-22 16:52:03 / Reuters
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- Summary
- Judge quashes DOJ subpoenas to Walz, other officials
- Trump administration demanded info in probe examining interference with immigration surge
- Judge finds justification for investigation “risible”
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge found that the Trump administration unlawfully demanded information from several Minnesota officials at the height of its immigration crackdown in the state earlier this year, ruling that the Justice Department had abused the investigative process.
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by Minnesota-based U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz quashed subpoenas to the office of the state’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz and five other local and state offices, according to an order made public on Monday.
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It effectively halts a probe by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department into whether Democratic officials had impeded immigration enforcement in their public resistance to the deployment of thousands of agents to conduct deportation roundups.
Schiltz, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, wrote that the Justice Department’s legal justification for the investigation was “risible.”
“The Court finds that the dominant purpose of the challenged subpoenas is to coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so,” Schiltz wrote. The order issued on June 17 was unsealed on Monday.
A Justice Department spokesperson said the department “takes the unlawful obstruction of federal law enforcement operations extremely seriously and will continue to act in full compliance with the law to investigate these matters.”
SUBPOENAS TIED TO IMMIGRATION SURGE
The immigration surge led to numerous violent confrontations with residents and activists in the Minneapolis area, including the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in January.
The ruling is the latest to find that the Trump Justice Department conducted a politically motivated investigation aimed more at harassing opponents than examining potential crimes. A judge in Washington, D.C., made a similar finding in halting a probe into then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in March.
The Trump Justice Department sought a wide range of information on state and local policies and directives related to federal immigration operations. The subpoena recipients included Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Walz, whom Trump has frequently derided and who served as Democrat Kamala Harris’ vice presidential nominee in 2024.
Walz said in a written statement that the decision was “a victory for the rule of law and our democracy.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat whose office was also subpoenaed, applauded the ruling. In a written statement he said, “In America, we settle our political differences at the ballot box, and it should disturb every American that Donald Trump is weaponizing the criminal justice system against people he disagrees with.”
The Justice Department issued the subpoenas in January as Trump administration officials accused Walz and other officials of deliberately stoking interference with Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the state.
Walz openly encouraged citizens to record video of ICE arrests and lauded protesters opposed to the Trump administration’s crackdown.
DOJ lawyers said the investigation was focused on whether state and local officials had violated laws barring obstructing federal operations and harbored migrants living illegally in the United States.
Recipients challenged the subpoenas in court, arguing they were issued for the improper purpose of retaliating against political opponents and coercing cooperation with the federal government.
Schiltz found that the DOJ put forward little evidence that state and local officials had violated any laws.
“The fact that connections between the information sought in the subpoenas and any possible criminal violation range from extremely weak to nonexistent only adds to the overwhelming evidence that these subpoenas were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, and retaliate,” the judge wrote.
Reporting by Andrew Goudsward; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis and Bill Berkrot
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