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State adopts rapid injunction law to stop elder scams
Minnesota’s new financial exploitation injunction law allows courts to freeze assets fast to protect vulnerable adults from scams and abuse.
Pass-through entity tax has expired. What now?
Minnesota’s pass-through entity tax expired at the end of 2025, leaving businesses uncertain whether lawmakers will reinstate the SALT workaround.
Perspectives: Trump’s urge to restore mascots recalls legacy here
President Trump’s call to restore Native-themed team names renews debate in Minnesota, where legal battles, trademarks, and mascot disputes have deep roots.
Perspectives: Longer Twins lease recalls salvation suit
The Minnesota Twins' Target Field lease extension stalls as lawmakers delay action; echoes of past legal battles shape the future of public stadium funding.
Report on pretrial system urges ‘system-wide transformation’
The ball is in the Minnesota Legislature’s court after the Minnesota Justice Research Center released a lengthy report that details many areas where the state's pretrial system apparently falls short.
Minnesota Legislature targeted for flipping
National organizations set sights on Minnesota’s House and Senate
Seven years in the Capitol
Julie Bartkey recalls covering highs and lows of the Minnesota Senate.
Lawmakers struggle to craft revenge porn bill
The bill addresses the deliberate distribution of pornographic images featuring unwilling subjects.
Crowded contest shaping up to replace Dill
Observers and participants are predicting a full DFL field in the effort to find Dill’s successor.
Committee OKs budget for Senate
Senate staff will get a 3 percent raise plus a one-time payment.
Carlson and Kahn: 42 years and counting
Lyndon Carlson and Phyllis Kahn won election to the Minnesota House in November 1972, the same night Nixon trounced his Democratic challenger, George McGovern.
Safe open seats draw out Republican candidates
This summer, the imminent departures of two Senate Republicans have inspired opposite reactions from potential suitors.
Top News
- Justices: Hearsay doesn’t derail murder conviction
- Pirro will not appeal judge’s quashing of Fed subpoenas
- DOJ sues to block Minnesota’s climate change lawsuit
- U.S. Supreme Court lets abortion pill mail delivery restart for now
- As Thomas hits milestone, his conservative stamp on court endures
- Amid leaks, Gorsuch says court needs room for ‘candid conversations’
- BridgeTower Media names Sandy Almendarez vice president of content
Expert Testimony
- Perspectives: Daily’s 125th at ‘U’ recalls varied cases
- Commentary: Will SCOTUS rule on general warrants and 4th Amendment?
- Perspectives: Law Day: Notable Supreme Court quotes
- Commentary: What can we learn from a secret act of judicial tyranny?
