Minnesota Lawyer

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his support for the first major rewrite of the nation’s criminal justice sentencing laws in a generation, but it remains to be seen whether the proposal can pass Congress. Trump said the ...

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers has some big ideas about how to change Wisconsin’s overcrowded prison system. The questions now are: How will he do it and will Republican legislators let him? Outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker drew ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday released an internal legal opinion supporting the legality of Matthew Whitaker’s appointment as acting attorney general. The 20-page opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides advice to executive branch agencies, is ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear an appeal by Virginia Republicans who are trying to preserve state legislative districts that have been struck down by a lower court as racially discriminatory. The case involves 11 districts in ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Attorneys for Kentucky’s socially conservative governor and the state’s only abortion clinic opened their latest legal fight Tuesday, this time over a lawsuit challenging a state law aimed at a common second-trimester procedure to end pregnancies. During ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The resignation of a West Virginia Supreme Court justice recently convicted of federal charges prompted the governor Sunday to cancel a special legislative session that was to consider the justice’s removal. It was the latest development in ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Another redistricting lawsuit has been filed in North Carolina, this one challenging General Assembly boundaries that Democrats and election reform advocates say are illegally tainted by excessive favoritism toward Republicans. Common Cause NC, the state Democratic Party ...

TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey Supreme Court decision could cause more than 20,000 drunken driving convictions to be vacated. In their unanimous decision issued Tuesday, the justices found that criminal charges against a state police sergeant who was in ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration plans to appeal a federal court ruling that would allow oil and gas drilling on land considered sacred to Native American tribes in Montana and Canada. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Tuesday it ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A proposed settlement says a former Michigan inmate with HIV will get $150,000 after he alleged he was given a harsher penalty for alleged sexual activity in 2012 than a non-infected prisoner. The Grand Rapids Press ...