The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled the state’s new aiding and abetting felony murder statute is constitutional over the objections of some prosecutors.

A controversial DHS hiring policy that came under investigation by the Trump administration last week has since become a topic of political conversation in Minnesota.

A federal appeals court has upheld its decision against two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota's redistricting map.

Georgia Supreme Court creates committee to conduct study allowing people with specialized legal training to do limited kinds of attorney work.

A committee created by the Georgia Supreme Court is recommending that the state try letting people with special legal training do limited kinds of attorney work that would give more people access to the justice system.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is due back in federal court Thursday for a hearing that was put on hold after his lawyer said his client had been unable to sleep while on suicide watch.

In one sense, the Supreme Court’s intervention may not be immediately earthshaking, because the lower courts seem to still have the opportunity to weigh the legality of what the RIFs look like in practice. “This is not the end of this case,” wrote Nick Bednar, a law professor at the University of Minnesota.

The suspect also faces state charges in the shooting deaths of State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband.