‘We are a whisper away from Jim Crow’: Minnesota's top prosecutor sounds alarm

When President Donald Trump’s performance in the polls in 2024 signaled a possible re-election, Keith Ellison and fellow Democratic attorneys general read Project 2025 and started getting ready, especially when Trump hired the key author of the planning document after his election.

They divided the documents into sections and marshaled their staff lawyers to be ready with lawsuits.

So when Russell Vought and the Office of Management and Budget froze the distribution of certain federal funds ...