Keith Ellison
September 9, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This morning I was on the drive-time Morning Answer, AM 560 in Chicago, with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson. We had a wide-ranging conversation about the Democrats’ effort to insulate the executive branch against a Republican administration; the prospect of Keith Ellison becoming Attorney General; the possibility of “dumb lummox” Tim Walz becoming vice president; and strategies for tomorrow night’s presidential debate. It was a lot of content packed into
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September 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Keith Ellison disputes the report of Rick Grenell that he is on a short list to serve as United States Attorney General in a prospective Harris-Walz administration. According to Ellison, the assertion is “a lie designed to trigger the Muslim haters.” This is a lie designed to trigger the Muslim-haters. https://t.co/vWPy6IiBV7 — Keith Ellison (@keithellison) September 7, 2024 Ellison currently serves as Minnesota Attorney General. As I’ve been writing since
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September 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Now we have word that, in her desperation to carry the anti-Semite vote in Michigan, Kamala Harris is floating the possibility of Keith Ellison as her Attorney General: Arab American leaders in Detroit have been told by the Kamala campaign that @keithellison is on the short list to be Attorney General if she should win. — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) September 7, 2024 It is hard to think of anyone less
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July 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Don’t tell the Star Tribune — oh, the excitement — but the idea that Kamala Harris might pick Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate is comedy gold. Yet Walz thinks highly of himself. He finds the idea highly plausible and he would love to get out of Dodge. I wonder how long it will be before the Star Tribune starts running stories about the prospect of Lt. Governor
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June 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Attorney Chris Madel represented Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan in the absurd murder case she brought by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty against Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan. Moriarty is a Soros-style prosecutor who has proved an embarrassment to the DFL. At long last she stood down and dismissed the charges against Londregan. John covered the dismissal in a post with links to his previous commentary on the case here.
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May 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In a nearby post John writes about the case of Myon Burrell. In the early days of Power Line John and I wrote several columns for the local newspapers decrying the murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Tyesha was doing her homework at the dining room table in November 2002 when she was caught in the crossfire of Minneapolis gangbangers. Myon Burrell was convicted twice of Tyesha’s murder and sentenced to
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October 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
In the early days of Power Line John and I wrote several columns for the local newspapers decrying the murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Tyesha was doing her homework at the dining room table in November 2002 when she was caught in the crossfire of Minneapolis gangbangers. Myon Burrell was convicted twice of Tyesha’s murder and sentenced to life in prison. In our columns we made three basic points: 1)
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June 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This Star Tribune headline caught my attention: “Keith Ellison, other state attorneys general concerned with Target pulling Pride products.” Why on earth would Target’s response to customer complaints be a matter of concern to attorneys general? What possible crime could they be looking into? Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and a group of 14 other attorneys general penned a letter to Target CEO Brian Cornell this week expressing concern about
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June 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
City Journal has posted my essay/review of Keith Ellison’s Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence. I am grateful to managing editor Paul Beston for letting me have my say under the auspices of City Journal and for giving me permission to cross-post my review on Power Line today. Please see the review as published with links here at City Journal. Having covered Ellison’s career on Power Line
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June 7, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s new memoir– Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence — received glowing press in the days following its publication on May 23. The Star Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR all lent a hand in the public relations for the book. Asking around among publishing sources, I am advised that Ellison’s book sold 410 copies in the first week
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June 4, 2023 — Scott Johnson
This should be the last part of my series of notes on Keith Ellison’s memoir of the Chauvin prosecution for the death of George Floyd — Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence. The series has let me take my eye off the news while I read the book and wrote a review that may see light in some form some time in the next week or two.
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June 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Keith Ellison’s Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence posits the death of George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis police as representative of the murderous rampage of law enforcement authorities against black Americans. Yesterday I noted that Ellison fails to cite any statistical analysis or study of deadly force police encounters to support the premise that the “cycle of police violence” exists. He also fails to
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June 2, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s memoir of the Chauvin prosecution — Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence — was published last week. It’s good to be Keith Ellison. He’s got the Star Tribune doing public relations for him. He’s got the New York Times doing public relations for him. He’s got the Washington Post doing public relations for him. He’s got NPR doing public relations for him.
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June 1, 2023 — Scott Johnson
United States District Judge Patrick Schiltz supervised the Blue Grand Jury that indicted Derek Chauvin et al. on federal civil rights charges following Chauvin’s conviction in state court for the murder of George Floyd. The indictment was sealed, but someone leaked news of the sealed indictment to Star Tribune reporter Andy Mannix. Mannix’s story was dated April 29, 2021, a few days in advance of the unsealing of the federal
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May 31, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I’m still working my way through Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s just-published memoir Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence. I hope to write a formal book review that administers justice to the book. In the meantime, I want to post a series of notes on the book. This is Ellison’s second memoir and it shares certain traits in common with the first, My Country, Tis of Thee:
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May 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I’m slowly working my way through Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s just-published memoir Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence. I hope to write a formal book review. I’m taking my time reading the book, compiling notes on it, and doing research on related points. I want to post a series of brief comments on the book on Power Line while I am working my way through it.
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December 29, 2022 — Scott Johnson
I detect Seth Lipsky’s characteristic prose and train of thought in the New York Sun editorial “Yes, Virginia–There Is a Santos Clause.” Seth’s hand in the editorial makes sense: he is the editor of the Sun. The subject of the editorial is the post-election discovery that Rep.-elect George Santos is not who he said he was. The subhead summarizes the gist of the editorial: “All the falsehoods George Santos is
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