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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.

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.

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.

Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, who was named "acting Senate president" on Tuesday, is no longer just acting the part.

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.

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

Senate Republicans raised some DFL eyebrows when Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, was named to the apparently unprecedented role of “acting Senate president.”

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.

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.

COVID and racial tension—from those twin wellsprings emerged virtually all of the top Capitol stories during that sad and baleful year, 2020.