WASHIGTON — Despite opposition from both Minnesota senators, the U.S. Sente confirmed Dan Rosen as President Trump’s choice to lead federal legal interests in Minnesota. The vote was 51-47, barely a majority. Rosen, age 59, splits his time between Minnesota and Florida, but his career has been in Minneapolis mostly as a litigator in eminent domain cases. He represented the landowner whose property was taken over in 2007 to build Target Field. The Senate opposition from Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, both Democrats, was rooted in Trump’s practice to extract personal loyalty pledges from his appointees and to ignore constitutional limits on presidential power. Osen’s salary in the Minnesota position: $190,000. Although a Republican, there is irony in occasional campaign donations to Democratic candidates — $2,800 to Senator Klobuchar and $500 to MN-2 Representative Angie Craig.
Inherited agenda
Rosen will have high-profile Minnesota cases to handle. There is the prosecution of Vance Boelter for the assassination of state Democratic legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband. This is a death penalty case. There also are indictments of restaurateurs accused of defrauding the state-run CoVid-emergency project Feeding Our Future. Republicans have accused Democrats of lapses in management that allowed millions of dollars in fraud.
Earlier: No impediments to U.S. attorney choice
Earlier: U.S. attorney for Minnesota resigns
Earlier: Ex-U.S. attorney Luger nominated to return
Earlier: Earlier: Corporate-type named to Minnesota law job
Earlier: Trump-appointed U.S. attorney leaves post
Rosen. A University of Minnesota Law School graduate with honors. A bachelor’s from University of Wisconsin. Navy duty in first Gulf war. Since 2017 the chief Minnesota partner for Miami-based Kluger Kaplan Silverman Katzen & Levine.