Keith Ellison has served as Minnesota's attorney general since January 2019. He is the lead prosecutor in the matter of the May 2020 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 unintentional murder, which resulted in the longest sentence of any police officer for killing a civilian while on duty in Minnesota.

 

As the People's Lawyer, Attorney General Ellison's job is to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. His core values are equity and inclusion. Ellison leads the Attorney General's Office in an expansive body of work that includes a wide variety of consumer-protection work and litigation, contributing to public safety, and representing more than 100 State of Minnesota agencies boards and commissions. During the Covid-10 pandemic, his office enforced executive orders barring evictions and price-gouging, and successfully defended the constitutionality of pandemic-related executive orders in court. 

 

From 2007 to 2019, Ellison served in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he championed consumer, worker environmental, and civil- and human-rights protections for all. Among his accomplishments are passing provisions to protect credit-card holders from abusive practices and the rights of renters and tenants. While in Congress he founded the Congressional antitrust and consumer-justice caucuses, and served as co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which he helped build to more than 100 members.

 

Arjun Singh Sethi is a community activist, human rights lawyer, author and law professor based in Washington, DC. He works closely with Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh communities and is the editor of American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, an NPR Best Book of 2018. He holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School, and co-chairs the American Bar Association's Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism, and Treatment of Enemy Combatants.