DOJ Civil Rights Division

Jim Stolley, ICE’s chief counsel in Minnesota, has retired after 31 years as the agency faces mounting legal challenges and repeated judicial rebukes over its handling of custody and release orders. At the same time the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office has been gutted by a wave of resignations and formal terminations — including multiple top prosecutors tied to disputes over the ICE shooting probe and the departure of four lead attorneys on the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case — shrinking staffing to as few as 17 AUSAs and forcing reliance on detailees from other districts, DHS lawyers and military JAGs amid broader DOJ turmoil.