The legal standoff between Minnesota and the federal government continues to escalate, as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sued the state on Wednesday over its race-based and sex-based hiring policies. 

The litigation comes the same week that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a joint lawsuit by the state and the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis against the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the two cities.  

Prior to those lawsuits, federal prosecutors had charged nearly 100 people in Minnesota welfare fraud schemes that have been estimated to have exceeded $9 billion. Whistleblowers have........

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