Minnesota Lawyer

The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the nomination of a 38-year-old judge and ally of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on a federal appeals court, despite Democrats’ objections that he’s inexperienced and biased against the Obama health care law.

Prosecutors charged three more police officers Wednesday in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge against the officer at the center of the case.

The case is closely watched in battleground Wisconsin, a state President Donald Trump won by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, alleges a “pattern and practice of conduct by law enforcement,” which the ACLU of Minnesota says, “tramples on the Constitution.”

A judge on Tuesday blocked a chain of central Minnesota bars and restaurants from offering sit-down dining in violation of Gov. Tim Walz’s peacetime emergency order during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The state of Minnesota filed a human rights complaint Tuesday against the Minneapolis Police Department in the death of George Floyd by an officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for minutes, even after he stopped moving.

A decision by President Trump to deploy the U.S. military to any state that refuses to take aggressive action against rioting would be met with likely legal opposition.

Gov. Tim Walz’s unusual decision to put Attorney General Keith Ellison in the lead was a win for local civil rights activists, who say Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman does not have the trust of the black community needed to handle the case.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Derek Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is being asked to release a prisoner who has been fighting his murder conviction for years and now is stricken with COVID-19.