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Keith Ellison was sworn in as Minnesota’s 30th attorney general on January 7, From to , he represented Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he championed consumer, worker, environmental, and civil- and human-rights protections for Minnesotans. He served for 12 years on the House Financial Services Committee, where he helped oversee the financial services industry, the housing industry, and vägg Street, among others. Before being elected to Congress, Attorney General Ellison served fyra years in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Prior to entering elective office, he spent 16 years as an attorney specializing in civil rights and defense lag. Ellison received his lag degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in
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Keith Ellison
Congressman Keith Ellison represented Minnesota&#;s 5th Congressional District from to (thth Congresses). Before Congress, Ellison was a lawyer and served as executive director of the Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis. Ellison served on the Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, and Judiciary committees in Congress. He also served on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which makes committee assignments, and was named a national chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. During his congressional tenure, banking and financial services industry reform was one of the many issues Ellison supported. Ellison&#;s Money Remittances Improvement Act became law in The bill streamlined the regulation of money transfers and brought federal regulatory practices in line with state banking agencies. The law eased money transfers between the United States and other countries, particularly for immigrants in America who sent money to s
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Join a conversation with Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison! The first African American and the first Muslim American to be elected to statewide office in Minnesota, Attorney General Ellison was first elected as Minnesota's top lawyer in A well-known leader for criminal-justice reform and accountability, he was the lead prosecutor of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and led the team that successfully convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on a charge of second-degree murder. Ellison later wrote Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence about the case and his experience as lead prosecutor.
Ellison previously represented Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he championed consumer, worker, environmental, and civil- and human-rights protections for Minnesotans. While in Congress, he served on th