Minnesota Independent

Norm Coleman to head new GOP Super PAC

By Jon Collins | 10.13.11 | 11:26 am

The group doesn’t need to disclose any donors and can accept unlimited donations.

Ellison joins call for investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas’ financial disclosure

By Jon Collins | 09.30.11 | 10:11 am

The Supreme Court justice failed to disclose his wife’s earnings for six years, which amounted to at least $686,000.

Bachmann adds Sekulow to list of constitution class teachers

By Andy Birkey | 02.01.11 | 3:02 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann has added religious right attorney Jay Sekulow to her list of instructors at her Tea Party Caucus constitutional classes. Sekulow is the head of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative religious law group televangelist Pat Robertson founded because he thought the American Civil Liberties Union was “hostile to traditional American values.” Sekulow joins Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and controversial history revisionist David Barton as an invitee of Bachmann to teach the courses.

Supreme Court. Photo: Scott Lenger, Flickr

Most of the Supreme Court’s conservative wing to skip State of the Union

By Patrick Caldwell | 01.25.11 | 12:06 pm

Tonight’s State of the Union address will likely be full of many showy “bipartisan” moments. President Obama will likely make a number of statements about reaching across the aisle, and many Republicans and Democrats in Congress will sit with

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Franken defends Thurgood Marshall from GOP criticism

By Andy Birkey | 07.02.10 | 2:06 pm

Sen. Al Franken took the opportunity during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to subtly criticize Republican statements asserting that Thurgood Marshall — the court’s first African American justice and a lawyer instrumental in getting…

Justice with Monsanto ties should recuse himself, environmentalists say

By Lynda Waddington | 04.27.10 | 7:59 am

Oral arguments will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday in a case involving a federal judge’s temporary ban on a breed of genetically-modified alfalfa developed by Monsanto Co. One of the court’s justices, Stephen Breyer, has recused himself due to conflict of interest, and some environmental advocates are questioning if Justice Clarence Thomas, a former attorney for Monsanto, should also step aside.