I think that Senator Mitchell should have vacated her seat after her arrest [View all]

I don’t know whether her district is a safe Democrat but this is embarrassing.


Senate GOP files new ethics complaints against Nicole Mitchell, state senator facing felony burglary charges

https://www.twincities.com/2025/02/18/senate-gop-files-new-ethics-complaints-against-nicole-mitchell-state-senator-facing-felony-burglary-charges/

Minnesota Senate Republicans are leaning into their push to force state Sen. Nicole Mitchell from office after the Woodbury Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmaker was hit with another felony charge tied to her alleged break-in at her stepmother’s home last year.

In an ethics complaint filed Tuesday, Senate Republicans argued Mitchell had a conflict of interest when she voted to block a motion that would have opened her to an expulsion vote. They also filed an updated ethics complaint which includes her new charge of felony burglary tools possession, which prosecutors filed on Feb. 10.

Mitchell now faces two felony charges in connection with the April 22 break-in, where prosecutors allege the senator used a crowbar to pry open a basement window of her stepmother’s home in Detroit Lakes.

Mitchell, who pleaded not guilty and is set to go to trial on June 16, told officers she was there to retrieve her father’s ashes and other sentimental items, according to the criminal complaint. The first-term DFL senator has declined to resign even as members of her own party, including Gov. Tim Walz, have called on her to do so.