DOJ subpoenas Walz, Frey and other Minnesota Democrats: sources

Sources instructed Fox Information that the Justice Division on Tuesday served grand jury subpoenas on 5 Minnesota authorities places of work — together with the governor’s workplace, the lawyer basic’s workplace and the mayor’s workplace of Minneapolis — as a part of a federal investigation into alleged conspiracy to coerce or impede federal regulation enforcement throughout ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minnesota.

The sources stated the FBI executed the subpoenas, searching for information and communications. The Justice Division declined to touch upon the case.

Fox Information discovered late final week that federal prosecutors had been investigating each Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly obstructing regulation enforcement efforts.

U.S. Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche instructed Fox Information that the duo’s anti-ICE rhetoric bordered on a federal crime.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS OPEN INVESTIGATION OF WALZ, FREY OVER ALLEGED OBSTRUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz are on the heart of a federal investigation into obstructing regulation enforcement. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures; Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune through Getty Pictures)

“If the governor or the mayor threatens our officers, if the mayor means that he encourages residents to name 911 in the event that they see ICE brokers, that comes very near a federal crime,” Blanche stated.

Walz responded to the information by accusing the Trump administration of “weaponizing the justice system.”

“Two days in the past it was Elissa Slotkin. Final week it was Jerome Powell. Earlier than that Mark Kelly,” Walz wrote in an X-post. “Weaponizing the justice system in opposition to your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The one particular person not beneath investigation for the taking pictures of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.”

Frey additionally joined in on social media, claiming he “won’t be intimidated.”

“That is an apparent try to intimidate me as I rise up for Minneapolis, native regulation enforcement and residents in opposition to the chaos and hazard this administration has delivered to our metropolis,” Frey wrote on X. “I cannot be intimidated. My focus stays the place it has at all times been: holding our metropolis protected.”

WHITE HOUSE SAYS WALZ, FREY DESIGNATED CHAOS AFTER ANTI-ICE MOB STORMS MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH

Federal immigration officers confront agitators exterior the Episcopal Henry Whipple Federal Constructing, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

The White Home later criticized a mob of anti-ICE agitators who reportedly stormed a Twin Cities church on Sunday, accusing Walz and Frey of inflicting the chaos.

“There isn’t a low level that these radical leftists usually are not prepared to stoop to,” White Home spokeswoman Abigail Jackson instructed Fox Information Digital on Monday morning. “Jacob Frey and Tim Walz whipped these rioters right into a frenzy and unleashed them to wreak havoc in Minneapolis.”

“Frey and Walz must be ashamed of themselves for inciting such chaos, however the Trump administration will proceed to implement the regulation,” she added.

Jackson responded to a mob consisting of dozens of agitators who allegedly stormed the Cities Church sanctuary in St. Paul halfway by way of church companies on Sunday, throwing the worship service into chaos, Fox Digital beforehand reported. Protesters claimed the pastor was a neighborhood ICE officer.

Protesters collect in entrance of Minneapolis Metropolis Corridor on Saturday, January 17, 2026. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

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Justice Division officers vowed Sunday to open an investigation into the disruption, particularly trying into federal civil rights violations “by these people who find themselves desecrating a home of worship and interfering with Christian worshipers,” Assistant Lawyer Normal Harmeet Dhillon stated.

Fox Information’ Alexandra Koch, David Spunt, Matt Finn and Emma Colton contributed to this report.