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The Department of Homeland Security blasted Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission for granting a pardon to Tou Lue Vang, a man convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct of a 10-year-old girl in 2006. Minnesota’s Board of Pardons, on its Clemency Review Commission, includes Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Justice Natalie Hudson. Vang was set to be deported to Laos, according to the DHS. However, his pardon was issued on June 10, 2026, a week before he was supposed to be deported. Now, the pardon could reportedly “thwart his removal from the United States.”
On Tuesday, California’s State Senate’s Elections Committee rejected a proposal (AB 2753) by vote of 2-1-2. The proposal would have banned registered sex offenders and human traffickers from running for public office in California. Specifically, Republican State Senator Steven Choi and Democrat San Diego State Senator Sabrina Cervantes backed the proposal, while Democrat San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener voted against it. The remaining two Democrats abstained. The Committee is chaired by Wiener (D-CA) and requires a majority vote to approve proposals. The bill was introduced after a registered sex offender tried to run for Fresno City Council, California. At present, California law disqualifies candidates convicted of various felonies, such as bribery, extortion, perjury, embezzlement, and conspiracy to commit said felonies, but not sex offenses. The State Assembly had unanimously approved the measure before it was blocked by the Committee. “This is potentially a very dangerous road we’re going down to say that ‘minor crimes’ are going to ban you for life for running for office,” said Wiener in an interview with ABC10, justifying his position.
