Gov. Walz appoints Theodora Gaitas and Sarah Hennesy to the MN Supreme Court Gov. Tim Walz on Monday announced the appointments of Theodora Gaïtas and Sarah Hennesy as associate justices on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Gaïtas will be replacing Margaret H. Chutich and Hennesy ... 04/22/2024 - 12:23 pm | View Link
Family of Ricky Cobb II sues trooper charged with murder as case sparks firestorm in Minnesota The MPPOA, which has more than 10,000 members and is the largest organization representing officers in the state, sent a letter on April 3 to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to intervene and urged him to ... 04/17/2024 - 3:49 am | View Link
Key Minnesota lawmaker says stakeholders are "very close" to agreement on rideshare rules for driver pay It was one of the items Gov. Tim Walz's work group consisting of drivers, state and local elected officials, and the rideshare companies agreed to last year. "Other places [in the bill], we're ... 04/16/2024 - 11:34 am | View Link
Highest child tax credit in country will take effect Monday in Minnesota ST. PAUL — Next Monday is Tax Day and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz doesn't want parents to miss out on the state's nationally ranked child tax credit. Bold predictions of the credit's effect show ... 04/10/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Link
Minnesota House OKs election bill allowing lawsuits over discrimination The Minnesota House approved an election policy bill on Monday that would grant voters the ability to sue over potentially discriminatory practices, creating a state response to a court decision ... 04/9/2024 - 8:11 pm | View Link
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raised concerns about granting the president absolute immunity, suggesting it could foster criminal activity in the Oval Office. She questioned Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, on why presidents should not be required to follow the law when acting in their official capacity.
Donald Trump is on trial in Manhattan facing 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of another crime: conspiring to influence the 2016 election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argues that, to squelch negative publicity that might hurt Trump’s 2016 campaign, Trump directed the creation of fake records to hide hush-money payments to women who claimed they’d had extramarital sex with him.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments over former President Donald Trump’s claims that he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for engaging in what he contends were his official duties while in office. And one justice, Samuel Alito, offered a particularly wild theory about how to preserve American democracy and the rule of law.
The case centers on whether special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election can proceed or whether—as Trump contends—he is above the law when it comes to his conduct leading up to the January 6 insurrection.
Can a President order a political rival’s assassination and avoid criminal prosecution? What if he sold nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary or staged a coup?
These are some of the hypothetical questions posed during oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Justices wrestled with the practical implications of what could happen if they grant former President Donald Trump immunity from criminal prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against him.
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“This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
During nearly three hours of arguments in Trump v.
Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant.
That sergeant went on to work for another police department until this year, when he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and misconduct and was sentenced, more than four years after the assaults and retaliation against Rees.
She testified to the state’s House Judiciary Committee this week that, even after her attacker was exposed, her complaint about still being listed as a problem police officer “is falling on deaf ears every time.”
Rees’ testimony, echoed by other frontline police officers from Colorado Springs and Denver about retaliation they faced after reporting misconduct, is driving state lawmakers’ latest effort at police oversight.