Minnesota Lawyer

A House committee has begun a bipartisan conversation about reining in the governor’s peacetime emergency powers.

The 16-member board includes lawyers, prosecutors, justice reform advocates, academics and a retired state Supreme Court justice.

Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.

In the 2021 legislative session’s early going, George Floyd’s presence is being powerfully felt—at least in one chamber.

The Mitchell Hamline School of Law is advertising a newly created position of vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed the civil commitment of a man a District Court judge deemed sexually dangerous, ruling that the judge erred and misapplied the law.

No one committed a crime during the recent “Storm the Capitol” rally that featured incendiary rhetoric from several speakers.

Minnesota’s U.S. District Court’s first remote jury trial begins Monday.

A Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill limiting governors’ ability to impose new criminal penalties through their peacetime emergency authority.

Just as it did in 2020, the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission’s annual legislative report includes a minority report, reflecting a split between factions on the commission.