WASHINGTON – President Trump nominated a Minneapolis litigator, Daniel Rosen, to be the next U.S. attorney for Minnesota. Rosen, age 59, is a registered Republican but served seven years on the nonpartisan Minnesota Campaign Finance Board as an appointee of Democratic Governor Mark Dayton. He is a 1994 law graduate of the University of Minnesota. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin. Most of his legal career was running the Minneapolis outpost of Miami-based law firm Kluger, Kaplan. He maintains addresses in Key Biscayne, near Mar-a-Lago, but said he would relocate to Minnesota. As U.S. attorney, Rosen would lead a staff of 140, including 70 lawyers, at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis, and a branch in St. Paul. The office represents the federal government with civil and criminal litigation. Rosen has never been a prosecutor. His defense work includes only a few criminal cases. His clients been mostly corporations. His charitable work includes being on the governing board of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. As U.S. attorney he would replace Andy Luger, a Biden appointee, who resigned in January.
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Steve Hunegs, executive director, Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, on Rosen’s politics: “We have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents on our board. We try to represent a cross section of the community. Dan came from a certain perspective, but he was certainly very understanding of other perspectives in trying to find common ground.”
Rosen. In the U.S. Justice Department he answers to Attorney General Pam Bondi, a lockstep Trump appointee who has led the president’s revenge campaign against his perceived enemies, especially in blue states. Bondi also has activated Trump’s anti-education, anti-immigrant, anti-safety net, and anti-due process agenda.