https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/mike-lindell-minnesota-governor-democrats/2020/10/01/id/989875/

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell told Newsmax TV on Thursday that he is “99% sure” that he’ll run for the Republican nomination for governor of Minnesota following his appearance at a rally for President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Lindell told “John Bachman Now” that he’s “getting real close” to deciding to campaign for the nomination. “I told them last night at the rally, I said, ‘you guys, let’s get this state all red and then… I definitely want to run for governor.”

He added, “So, I’m 99% sure that I’m going to run, the crowd went crazy so I kind of tested it there. ‘What would you guys think if I did this?’ And everyone afterwards was coming up for pictures saying, ‘You’ve gotta run, you’ve got to save our state, our governor is so bad.’

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/1/federal-judge-stops-ag-barrs-law-enforcement-panel/

A federal judge Thursday halted a Justice Department commission studying issues plaguing the law enforcement community from releasing its report because the panel excluded civil rights leaders.

U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled the much-ballyhooed Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires government committees to receive input from “fairly balanced” viewpoints.

Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote in his 45-page opinion that the commission was full of law enforcement officials, but none of the members have “a criminal defense, civil rights, or community organization background.”

“Especially in 2020, when racial justice and civil rights issues involving law enforcement have erupted across the nation, one may legitimately question whether it is sound policy to have a group with little diversity of experience, examine, behind closed doors, the sensitive issues facing law enforcement and the criminal justice system in America today,” he wrote.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/federal-judge-orders-doj-to-release-redacted-sections-of-mueller-report-before-election/

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to release certain previously redacted sections of the Mueller report by Election Day, ruling that portions of the report were improperly deemed classified.

U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton in Washington, D.C. said that the DOJ violated federal law by unnecessarily redacting at least at least 15 pages of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign.

The redacted portions of the special counsel’s final report appear to deal with charging decisions made by Mueller’s team as well as the hack and theft of the Democratic National Committee’s emails by alleged Russian intelligence operatives in 2016, and the Trump campaign’s interest in the stolen emails after they were published on WikiLeaks.

The Mueller report sections in question must be released in full by November 2, a day before the general election, the judge said in his order.

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Walton noted, however, that large portions of the 448-page report were rightly hidden from public view in order to protect the privacy of individuals, ongoing investigations, and the law enforcement process.

The ruling came in response to a lawsuit by BuzzFeed News and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who sued to have the entire Mueller reported released in unreacted form under the Freedom of Information Act.