Author Archives: Kevin Featherly

Kevin Featherly, who joined BridgeTower Media in mid-2016, is a journalist and former freelance writer who has covered politics, law, business, technology and popular culture for publications and websites in the Twin Cities and nationally since the mid-1990s.

Reactions mixed over year-end Roberts report

Kevin Featherly January 15, 2020

In December 2017, Chief Justice John Roberts asked that a working group be put together to examine the judiciary’s workplace conduct policies. (AP file photo)

.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ latest Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, issued Dec. 31, generated the kind of varied reactions one might expect from a Rorschach test.

Tighter security for Judicial Center

Kevin Featherly January 13, 2020

The installation of a metal detector and an X-ray machine in the Minnesota Judicial Center will be part of an ongoing, $10 million security upgrade at several Capitol campus buildings. (File photo)

X-rays, metal scanners, more police are likely.

Bar Buzz: Cleary replacement search is on

Kevin Featherly January 10, 2020

Chief Judge Edward J. Cleary at his investiture in 2013. (File photo)

It’s official: The search is on to replace Minnesota Court of Appeals Chief Judge Edward J. Cleary, who is retiring later this year.

Right of association central to primary-election suit

Kevin Featherly January 10, 2020

Erick Kaardal, Jennifer Carnahan, Steve Simon

Parties’ rights include right not to associate, DFLers argue.

Hemp farmer’s lawyer seeks dismissal of drug charges

Kevin Featherly January 9, 2020

A post on Luis Miguel Hummel’s public Facebook page shows him giving a thumb’s up in front of his thriving hemp crop. (Submitted photo)

A defense lawyer is asking a Fillmore County judge to dismiss drug possession and sales charges against a Lanesboro hemp farmer, claiming that prosecutors have failed to make their case.