A New Hope police officer is denied qualified immunity from a First Amendment retaliation claim, after she stopped a driver for waving a middle finger at her, a U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ruled.
Read More »Revenge porn law survives strict scrutiny
A Minnesota law that criminalizes revenge porn is constitutional because it prohibits more than obscenity and because it passes the strict scrutiny test, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.
Read More »Bar Buzz: Lawmakers sue MMB over state employee raises
A pair of state lawmakers are suing the commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget, seeking a declaratory judgment against the agency for implementing what they assert were illegal state employee pay raises.
Read More »For real this time: Miller Senate president
Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, who was named "acting Senate president" on Tuesday, is no longer just acting the part.
Read More »Update: Judge orders Kaardal to show cause
With the lawsuit Wisconsin Voters Alliance et al. v. Pence et al. now dismissed, a Washington, D.C., U.S. Circuit Court judge has ordered attorney Erick Kaardal to prove that he should not be referred for possible sanctions.
Read More »Capitol Retort: New session; finding votes; be it resolved
Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.
Read More »Senate names unusual ‘acting president’
Senate Republicans raised some DFL eyebrows when Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, was named to the apparently unprecedented role of “acting Senate president.”
Read More »More legislative livestreams launched
To make it easier for the public to follow House bills through committee, the lower chamber has expanded its live webcast channels from a maximum of two to a new max of five simultaneous livestreams.
Read More »Bivens claim nixed in ‘rogue’ cop case
In a decision that dissenting Judge Jane Kelly said might leave two falsely jailed women with no remedy, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded a lawsuit against “a rogue law enforcement officer” back to Minnesota’s U.S. District Court.
Read More »2020: A predictable shock
COVID and racial tension—from those twin wellsprings emerged virtually all of the top Capitol stories during that sad and baleful year, 2020.
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