Faced with intense pressure from their activist base to “do something” in response to the recent federal law enforcement shootings in Minnesota, Senate Democrats are coalescing around a number of proposals, including a demand that the Department of Homeland Security cooperate with state investigations of the deaths. 

Considering Minnesota’s complete inability to police massive welfare fraud in its own jurisdiction, the refusal of state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with immigration agencies, and the obvious bias of the state’s top law enforcement official, such a state-led investigation is an obvious nonstarter.