The power to pardon in Minnesota should be the governor’s – continued

January 25, 2021

The pardon power is the ancient prerogative of the executive

by Steve Timmer

Law professors can be so naive

October 11, 2020

With an update on October 14th . . .

by Steve Timmer

Useful idiots

July 12, 2019

In the Strib (the paper edition) yesterday, July 11th, the editorial board of the Largest Newsroom in Minnesota! penned a genuine stinker about dropping the reciting the pledge of allegiance before meetings of the city council in St. Louis Park. It stuns me that an event of such little consequence could inflame so many people, […]

by Steve Timmer

Keith Ellison is the only choice for Attorney General

November 3, 2018

An unreserved endorsement . . .

by Steve Timmer

Doug Wardlow’s blogging while clerking scandal

October 27, 2018

A lawyer’s perspective

by Steve Timmer

Performing feats of pseudo-religious legerdemain

October 21, 2018

Greenville, S.C. – July 29, 1960  Six young Negro boys were arrested for sitting down at a local whites-only lunch counter and refusing to leave without being served. After the boys were cleared out by the police, the owner of the lunch counter was asked for a reaction. “I’m sure those Negroes will be represented […]

by Steve Timmer

Richard Painter for U.S. Senate

July 30, 2018

August 3rd: Now with important updates

by Steve Timmer

There are no Caesar’s wives

February 22, 2018

In the wake of the Florida school shooting last week, the subject of gun control has appropriately and perhaps finally, animated political discussions around the country, including in the Minnesota governor’s race. And maybe, just maybe, it’ll be young people – Millennials are now the biggest voter cohort – who will lead the way on […]

by Steve Timmer

Ron Way endorses Carolyn Jackson for Minnesota House District 49A

February 15, 2018

Edina resident Ron Way, a former official with both the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, endorses Carolyn Jackson for the DFL endorsement for House District 49A. Ron Way endorses Carolyn Jackson for House District 49A from LEFT MN on Vimeo. The campaigns that Ron refers to were the successful efforts […]

by Steve Timmer

Carolyn Jackson for House District 49A

January 23, 2018

Who is the best DFL candidate to run against first-term incumbent Republican Dario Anselmo this fall? If you go to Carolyn Jackson’s campaign website, you can read the endorsements of people who know and have worked with Carolyn and can attest that she is someone who gets things done. I provided one of them. Here […]

by Steve Timmer

Dear rural friends: it’s not our fault: a reprise

March 20, 2017

The politics of grievance and resentment

by Steve Timmer

Mourning opportunities lost, a reprise

October 18, 2016

Below the bubbles is a story I wrote in the wake of the 2014 elections and the DFL’s loss of the Minnesota House of Representatives. One of the things I predicted — although it wasn’t that hard — was this: My friends, you can look forward another [2016] election cycle just like the last [2014] one, only […]

by Steve Timmer