Justice Department seeks to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from immigration-related cases
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Candidates for governor Amy Klobuchar and Lisa Demuth held their first — and likely final — televised debate in Rochester on Wednesday. Questions covered fraud, taxes, healthcare, cancer treatment, gang violence and mining. Abortion came up, too. A state Supreme Court ruling protects abortion access in Minnesota even as federal rulings chip away at it elsewhere.
The Justice Department is seeking to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from a pair of immigration-related cases after they made public comments about the Trump administration’s wintertime immigration enforcement operation. The DOJ’s move to disqualify Judges John Tunheim and Patrick Schiltz follows an ethics complaint that the DOJ filed last month. Prosecutors claim the two violated ethics rules by speaking to the New York Times about Operation Metro Surge.
The St. Paul City Council presented a plan Wednesday for how it wants the city and county to respond to the needs of unsheltered residents. It comes two and a half months after the city shut down a large encampment, causing a wave of residents to relocate to another camp in the woods.
Nearly four years after a man was fatally shot in the Nordstrom store at the Mall of America, the victim’s mother is suing the mall and the retailer. The wrongful death lawsuit filed this month by Lynn Hudson claims Nordstrom and the Mall of America were negligent — and that both failed to provide adequate security — on the day that her son, 19-year-old Johntae Hudson, was killed. That gunfire followed a fight and chase through the store in December 2022.
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Minnesota hospital leaders released a report this week detailing growing challenges to healthcare access across the state. The report says that the cost of delivering care has increased by 30 percent over the past five years, largely due to rising expenses for prescription drugs and medical supplies.
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