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Newly elected Rep. Michelle Fischbach, R-Minn., seen here at a rally for President Donald Trump at the Bemidji Regional Airport on Sept. 18 in Bemidji, Minnesota, has been targeted for "canceling" by students at the law school of which she is a graduate. (Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) Some students at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, are asking the school’s administration to ban an alumna and newly elected congresswoman because of her stance on voter fraud an...

A group of 157 law school deans, including three from Minnesota, have jointly condemned the insurrectionists who invaded the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and the lawyers who helped stoke their fury. The Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s Anthony Niedwiecki, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Garry W. Jenkins and the University of St. Thomas School of Law’s Robert K. Vischer all signed the joint statement. They joined the deans of law schools at places as varied as Pepperdine University, How...

Posted: January 12, 2021 Mitchell Hamline President and Dean Anthony Niedwiecki was one of 157 law school deans from across the country to sign onto a statement Tuesday decrying the January 6 th attack on the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of a fair and free election. “The violent attack on the Capitol was an assault on our democracy and the rule of law,” the statement says. “The effort to disrupt the certification of a free and fair election was a betrayal of the core v...

Bob Whitsitt was the oldest of all who received a degree in a virtual ceremony for St. Pauls Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

Relph is the first Minnesota lawmaker whose death is linked to COVID-19. Written By: Brian Bakst and Kirsti Marohn / Minnesota Public Radio | 11:01 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 × Minnesota Sen. Jerry Relph, R-St. Cloud, in 2017. Relph, a first-term state senator from St. Cloud, died Friday, Dec. 18, of complications of COVID-19. Laura Yuen / MPR News 2017 Jerry Relph, a first-term state senator from St. Cloud, died Friday of complications of COVID-19, his family and the Senate majority leader c...