Matt Sepik

The judge ordered Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court personally on Friday to answer why he shouldn't be held in contempt.

Schiltz was appointed by President George W. Bush and clerked for the late conservative U.S.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

In a Monday order, Schiltz writes, quote, the court's patience is at an end.

For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.

Bovino was the commander at large of the agency.

He's made himself visible on the streets during operations here in Minnesota and elsewhere.

Governor Tim Walz says Bovino is leaving Minnesota.

Now he's returning to his old post in California and is expected to retire soon.

This is effectively a demotion because he's no longer leading the administration's multi-state operation.

On social media, the president said that he had a, quote, very good telephone conversation with the mayor.

Fry said Trump agreed that the present situation cannot continue.

And Governor Walz says the president seemed earnest.

Wall says Trump agreed to consider reducing the number of federal agents here and allow state police to investigate the killings of Renee Macklin Good on January 7th and Alex Preddy on Saturday.

There is little that state police can do without their federal counterparts, and there's still no indication whether the feds are cooperating.

After Good was killed, the Department of Homeland Security blocked Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from investigating.

Then Saturday, DHS refused to let the BCA access the area where Pretty was killed, even after the state got a search warrant.

A judge ordered the feds not to destroy any evidence.

That order remains in place even as the Justice Department challenges it.

In court yesterday, Assistant U.S.