Keith Ellison

person · Attorney General of MinnesotaCredibility: 68%

Why this score? Attorney General of Minnesota since 2019 and the defendant in xAI's challenge to HF 1606. A sitting state law-enforcement officer whose formal court filings are made under Rule 11 and are checkable against the statute and the docket; his public characterizations of the litigation are, however, those of an interested party defending his own state's law and a politician who has campaigned on the issue. Baseline set above the median for a partisan officeholder because the recorded claims here come from signed legal briefs rather than press releases.

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Minnesota's ban on nudification tools should not be frozen: xAI waited until the last minute to sue and alleges only unsubstantiated financial loss, so it has shown no irreparable harm; and because it brought a facial challenge before the law was ever enforced, it must show the statute's unconstitutional applications outweigh its constitutional ones — which it effectively concedes it cannot.^±

— Keith Ellison · Aug 14, 2026

Topic: state of ai/law and governance/us preemption

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Context: The irreparable-harm half was adopted in full on 4 September: the court found unreasonable delay, called xAI's cost evidence "vague and conclusory" and its lost-user claim speculative. The facial-challenge half was not reached — the court left the First Amendment question to the state's pending motion to dismiss (order, Doc. 54).