Minnesota Lawyer

ATMORE, Ala. — In February, Doyle Lee Hamm became the fourth person in more than 70 years to walk away from an execution attempt in the United States. Alabama Department of Corrections officials called off his lethal injection attempt at ...

WASHINGTON — George Papadopoulos, taken by surprise by FBI agents at an airport last summer, now tweets smiling beach selfies with a Mykonos hashtag. Rick Gates, for weeks on home confinement with electronic monitoring, gets rapid approval for a family ...

NEW YORK — Seventeen states, the District of Columbia and six cities sued the U.S. government Tuesday, saying the addition of a citizenship question to the census form is unconstitutional. The Trump administration’s decision to ask people about their citizenship ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — Two top Republicans issued an ultimatum Tuesday that Kansas legislators act to curb the power of judges before they will allow them to vote on increasing public school funding to satisfy a demand from the state Supreme ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Attorneys for a neo-Nazi website publisher and a Montana woman asked a judge Tuesday to decide whether the white nationalist had a First Amendment right to unleash a “troll storm” of anti-Semitic messages and threats against the ...

MADISON, Wis. — Liberal judge Rebecca Dallet’s runaway victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race cheered Democrats eager for more evidence that their party can expect success in midterm elections this fall. And Dallet’s hammering of conservative judge Michael Screnock ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York Police Department can use a Cold War-era legal tactic to conceal whether it put two Muslim men under surveillance, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals, in a split 4-3 decision, ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who is known for his brash comments, called the federal judge who allowed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump an “imbecile.” Four times, no less. LePage hurled the insult Wednesday after learning that ...

Porn star’s lawyer pursues, baits president

BOSTON — When Donald Trump won more than 52 percent of the Texas vote during the 2016 election, he pocketed all 38 of that state’s Electoral College votes just as Hillary Clinton, who won California with 61 percent of the ...