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[SVPete]

NEW: Federal Judge Tosses Minnesota Lawsuit to Stop Immigration Enforcement Surge

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/01/31/new-federal-judge-tosses-minnesota-lawsuit-to-stop-immigration-enforcement-surge-n3811431

The outcome should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment, on which Minnesota AG Keith Ellison relied for his lawsuit. What may come as a surprise is that not even the normally sympathetic federal judge hearing the case would swallow it.

Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden-appointed jurist whose recent stay on ICE operations got sharply overturned by the Eighth Circuit, threw in the towel early this time. She ruled that Minnesota couldn't make its case for judicial intervention to stop Operation Metro Surge, the Homeland Security effort to find violent illegal-alien criminals released by state and local authorities into the Twin Cities:

[SVPete]

‘Melania’ Movie Humiliates Critics and Media Naysayers with Historic Box Office

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/01/31/melania-movie-humiliates-critics-and-media-naysayers-with-historic-box-office-n4948955

The legacy media must be devastated. Melania just had a huge box-office opening for a documentary, despite all the efforts to destroy the film before its release.

Deadline reports that Melania will finish the weekend in third place, with an $8 million opening.

Coming in at third is Amazon MGM Studios’ Brett Ratner-directed documentary Melania, which is eyeing $2.85M today (no previews) for an $8M opening in third place — that result would mark the best start for a docu in the last decade (beating Angel Studios’ 2023 doc After Death, which opened to $5M and finaled at $11.5M stateside). I’m hearing sales are gaining, with Florida and Texas quite large, for the First Lady’s big-screen debut.