Keith Ellison
Democratic-Farmer-Labor · MN · Attorney General of Minnesota
Keith Ellison was sworn in as Minnesota's 30th attorney general on January 7, 2019. From 2007 to 2019 he represented Minnesota's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House, serving 12 years on the House Financial Services Committee.
Where Keith Ellison stands, based on their records
Supports
AI Regulation (1 record), Healthcare Affordability (10 records), Environment and Public Health (9 records),
Mixed record
Data Privacy (5 support · 1 oppose)
Track record
Track record — AI Regulation
AI Regulation · 1 support
Joined 26 attorneys general from both parties urging Congress to quickly set national rules for artificial intelligence development.
September 24, 2026Supports AI Regulation
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Track record — Healthcare Affordability
Healthcare Affordability · 10 support
Signed a 10-year oversight agreement letting Sanford Health merge with North Memorial Health. It requires $600 million in investment and keeps Robbinsdale Hospital's top-level trauma center open.
August 28, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined 21 states in suing over a federal rule that his office said raised out-of-pocket costs and made health insurance harder to get under the Affordable Care Act.
July 31, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached a settlement with Mayo Clinic addressing charity-care eligibility and medical-debt collection practices.
March 14, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Secured a Novo Nordisk agreement providing eligible Minnesotans $35 monthly insulin prescriptions.
January 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached a settlement with Sanofi that caps covered insulin products at $35 per monthly prescription for Minnesotans and provides free insulin to qualifying residents for five years.
July 23, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached an agreement with Eli Lilly for low-cost insulin access for Minnesotans through 2029.
February 7, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Announced final approval of the $26 billion national opioid settlement with distributors and Johnson & Johnson.
February 25, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined a $26 billion agreement with major opioid distributors and Johnson & Johnson to resolve state and local opioid claims.
July 21, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Took over as first sponsor of H.R. 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, with House unanimous consent; the bill did not become law.
March 7, 2018Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: govinfo.gov
Voted for House concurrence in the Senate amendments to H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; the motion passed.
March 21, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 9 support
Challenged the Trump administration's rollbacks of Endangered Species Act rules, saying they put species and their habitats at risk.
September 9, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued the Trump administration's EPA over a rule that loosened limits on HFCs, potent greenhouse gases.
July 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Formally opposed an EPA rollback that ended requirements for public water systems to test for, report, and remove PFAS "forever chemicals."
July 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined a court case to challenge the Trump administration's freeze on wind energy projects, which his office said put 1,200 Minnesota construction jobs at risk.
July 17, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued e-cigarette maker Loon in Ramsey County for selling flavored vapes that appeal to minors.
July 15, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Settled Minnesota’s lawsuit against Reynolds and Walmart over marketing plastic bags as recyclable.
August 1, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Finalized Minnesota’s $60.5 million settlement with JUUL and Altria over e-cigarette marketing to young people.
May 17, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Filed Minnesota’s climate-deception lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute, alleging misrepresentation of fossil-fuel climate harms.
June 24, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Filed Minnesota’s lawsuit alleging JUUL deceptively marketed e-cigarettes to young people; the filing began the case and was not a final liability ruling.
December 4, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Track record — Labor Rights
Labor Rights · 5 support
Shut down a charity that his office found had misclassified hundreds of paid concession-stand workers at Twin Cities stadiums as volunteers.
July 29, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached a settlement with Shipt resolving allegations that it misclassified delivery shoppers as independent contractors.
September 26, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Recovered $1 million in back wages for 3M employees after the company made unauthorized paycheck deductions.
May 2, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued Shipt, alleging it misclassified delivery shoppers as independent contractors rather than employees; the complaint was not a final finding.
October 27, 2022Supports Labor Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached settlements with four fast-food chains ending no-poach agreements that restricted their workers from moving among franchise locations.
March 13, 2019Supports Labor Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Track record — Immigration
Immigration · 4 support
Won a ruling with 22 other attorneys general that legal permanent residents stay eligible for SNAP food aid and states cannot be fined for not cutting them off.
September 18, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined 22 states and D.C. in suing over a rule letting Homeland Security deny green cards to immigrants who legally use public benefits.
September 14, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: ag.state.mn.us
A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit against him, the state, and several local governments that sought to force them to enforce federal immigration policy. His office defended the case.
July 20, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined a multistate lawsuit challenging the federal executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
January 21, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 11 support
Sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott to force the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro, who faces assault charges in Minnesota for a shooting during Operation Metro Surge.
August 18, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
His office filed 17 felony theft charges in two Ramsey County cases involving more than $1.5 million in Medicaid fraud.
August 17, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Obtained an $18.5 million settlement of Medicaid-fraud claims against NUWAY.
June 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Announced charges against five people in an alleged $9.5 million Medicaid-fraud scheme; the charges were not convictions.
August 29, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Opened Minnesota’s Conviction Review Unit to applications from people claiming wrongful convictions.
August 3, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
As lead prosecutor in State v. Derek Chauvin, announced the jury's guilty verdicts in the murder of George Floyd.
April 20, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Announced a federally funded Conviction Review Unit to examine credible claims of wrongful conviction in Minnesota.
October 8, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Charged Derek Chauvin with second-degree murder and three other former Minneapolis officers with aiding and abetting in George Floyd’s death; charges were allegations at filing.
June 3, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Released recommendations from the working group he co-chaired on reducing police-involved deadly-force encounters.
February 24, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Obtained convictions of Lillian Richardson and Bridgett Burrell in a $7.7 million Medicaid-fraud case, described by his office as its largest state-court Medicaid-fraud case to date.
February 8, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Voted for passage of S. 47, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013; the bill passed the House.
February 28, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Track record — Gun Control
Gun Control · 1 support
Sued Fleet Farm, alleging negligent firearm sales to straw purchasers; the complaint was an allegation, not a liability finding.
October 5, 2022Supports Gun Control
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Track record — Women's Reproductive Rights
Women's Reproductive Rights · 2 support
Sued to challenge new federal conditions on Title X family-planning funding, which gave Minnesota $17.1 million in 2026.
August 27, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Stated his office would not prosecute a person for obtaining a legal abortion in Minnesota.
June 21, 2022Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Track record — Election Integrity
Election Integrity · 2 support
Co-introduced H.J.Res. 44, a proposed constitutional amendment establishing an affirmative right to vote for U.S. citizens; it did not advance to ratification.
May 14, 2013Supports Election Integrity
Source: govinfo.gov
Chief-authored House File 3475, proposing to ban deceptive statements about when, where, or how to vote. A committee advanced it in March 2006, but the bill went no further.
March 13, 2006Supports Election Integrity
Source: revisor.mn.gov
Track record — Data Privacy
Data Privacy · 5 support · 1 oppose
Sued the Trump administration to stop it from sharing the private data of millions of people who get family cash assistance (TANF).
August 3, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued to block FEMA and Homeland Security conditions that tied disaster and counterterrorism funding to states sharing voter lists and changing how they run elections.
July 23, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached a multistate settlement with the bankrupt genetic-testing company 23andMe over a data breach that affected more than 92,000 Minnesotans. Minnesota is to get more than $500,000.
July 14, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined a $391.5 million multistate settlement with Google over its location-tracking practices.
November 14, 2022Supports Data Privacy
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined the multistate Equifax data-breach settlement, which required consumer relief and security changes after the 2017 breach.
July 22, 2019Supports Data Privacy
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Voted against passage of H.R. 2048, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015; the bill passed the House.
May 13, 2015Opposes Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 3 support
Sued a company called C4D and its owners, alleging predatory contracts for deed aimed at Muslims of Somali descent.
September 9, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Established a Civil Rights Division within the Attorney General’s Office to expand civil-rights enforcement.
June 10, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Introduced a bill in September 2016 proposing to exempt bonds issued for historically Black colleges and universities from federal securities registration and taxes, making it cheaper for those schools to borrow. The bill never got a vote and died in committee (H.R. 6048).
September 15, 2016Supports Civil Rights
Source: congress.gov
Track record — Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability · 32 support
Recovered $18.5 million in a civil settlement with Partners in Nutrition over false claims for child-nutrition funds.
September 24, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached a settlement stopping online lender Plain Green from charging Minnesotans nearly 700% interest. It erased interest on existing loans.
September 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Settled his lawsuit against the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger. Paramount agreed to release at least 30 films a year for five years.
September 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached a settlement with 41 other states requiring subprime auto lender Credit Acceptance Corporation to pay $75 million and forgive $630 million in consumer debt.
September 17, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Urged Congress to protect states' power to fight cryptocurrency scams, opposing that part of the Clarity Act.
September 14, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued a company called C4D and its owners, alleging predatory contracts for deed aimed at Muslims of Somali descent.
September 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Signed a 10-year oversight agreement letting Sanford Health merge with North Memorial Health. It requires $600 million in investment and keeps Robbinsdale Hospital's top-level trauma center open.
August 28, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Secured a national settlement with Meta requiring child-safety features such as daily time limits and nighttime blocks. Minnesota is to get at least $214 million.
August 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Announced a $400 million multistate settlement with generic-drug maker Sandoz over a scheme to inflate drug prices. Minnesota is to get over $2 million.
August 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Won a temporary court order, at his request, pausing the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger while the lawsuit continued.
July 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued e-cigarette maker Loon in Ramsey County for selling flavored vapes that appeal to minors.
July 15, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Reached a multistate settlement with the bankrupt genetic-testing company 23andMe over a data breach that affected more than 92,000 Minnesotans. Minnesota is to get more than $500,000.
July 14, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined 11 other state attorneys general in suing to block Paramount's purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying the merger broke antitrust laws.
July 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Announced a $45 million multistate settlement with Block over alleged deceptive Cash App safety, fraud-protection, and customer-service practices, with Minnesota receiving $638,924.
July 8, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Announced that the Purdue Pharma and Sackler settlement became effective, providing $59 million to Minnesota and bringing the office's opioid-company recoveries for Minnesota to $633 million across 21 settlements.
May 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued TikTok, alleging its design harmed children through addictive features and deceptive practices; the allegations remained to be adjudicated.
August 19, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined the antitrust lawsuit against Deere & Company alleging restrictions on farmers’ access to equipment repair.
January 15, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined the federal antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster alleging monopolistic concert-market practices.
May 23, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Completed review of the St. Luke’s and Aspirus health-system merger and obtained a five-year agreement governing charitable assets and local access.
March 1, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined a $700 million multistate settlement with Google over its Play Store practices.
December 19, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined the Federal Trade Commission lawsuit challenging Amgen’s proposed acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics on antitrust grounds.
June 23, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Announced final relief for former Minnesota School of Business and Globe University students, including nearly $24 million in debt forgiveness and $16 million in restitution.
September 30, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Secured an $81 million tobacco-settlement payment to Minnesota after litigation over payments owed by R.J. Reynolds.
March 17, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined a $573 million multistate settlement with McKinsey & Company over its work for opioid manufacturers.
February 4, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Joined the multistate antitrust lawsuit challenging Google’s alleged monopoly in general internet search.
December 17, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Settled Minnesota’s investigation of Frontier Communications over customer service and billing practices.
July 13, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Settled Minnesota’s challenge to the T-Mobile/Sprint merger with commitments concerning consumer prices and Minnesota jobs.
March 11, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Obtained an $8.9 million CenturyLink settlement over alleged consumer overbilling that also required billing-practice reforms.
January 8, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Added members of the Sackler family as defendants in Minnesota’s lawsuit against Purdue Pharma over its opioid marketing; the filing alleged misconduct and was not a final finding.
May 17, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Introduced a bill proposing to bar publicly traded companies from buying back their own shares on the open market; it never got a vote and died with that Congress (House Bill 6096, 2018).
June 13, 2018Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: congress.gov
Introduced a bill to tax certain financial trading transactions, proposing to use the money to expand economic opportunity and shore up the middle class. It drew 16 co-sponsors and died in committee without a vote (H.R. 6411, Inclusive Prosperity Act, 2012).
September 14, 2012Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: congress.gov
Introduced H.R. 4766, the Permanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2010; its final recorded action was referral to the House Financial Services Committee. Filed the same bill in earlier sessions: H.R. 5963 (2008).
March 4, 2010Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: congress.gov
Track record — General
General · 13 records
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to lift a lower-court order blocking the Postal Service's mail-voting rule, siding with his lawsuit.
September 14, 2026
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Won a settlement in a multistate lawsuit that blocks the Trump administration from dismantling AmeriCorps programs without warning.
September 11, 2026
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Sued the U.S. Postal Service to block a new rule that required states to overhaul vote-by-mail procedures before the November election.
August 26, 2026
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Won dismissal of a Trump administration lawsuit demanding Minnesota's voter rolls. The court said the government had not claimed Minnesota failed to maintain them.
August 17, 2026
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Won a second lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to protect federal funding for homelessness and permanent housing programs.
August 10, 2026
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Filed another lawsuit against President Trump's tariffs, arguing they were illegal and raised prices.
August 3, 2026
Source: ag.state.mn.us
Received the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for reelection as attorney general.
May 29, 2026
Source: dfl.org
Voted against final House passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the law cutting corporate and individual income tax rates. The measure passed 224-201 (H.R. 1).
December 20, 2017
Source: clerk.house.gov
Became deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee after Tom Perez nominated him and committee members approved by acclamation.
February 25, 2017
Source: democratsabroad.atlassian.net
Introduced H.R. 4386, the Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014; it became Public Law 113-156.
April 3, 2014
Source: congress.gov
Voted against passage of S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011; the bill passed the House.
August 1, 2011
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for House concurrence in the Senate amendments to H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008; the motion passed.
October 3, 2008
Source: clerk.house.gov
His state-house campaign committee amended its 2002 report to disclose a $4,399.92 unpaid advertising bill after a Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board complaint; the Board found the reporting violation resolved, dismissed the separate radio-ad allegation, and closed the investigation.
September 17, 2003
Source: cfb.mn.gov
Past races Keith Ellison ran in:
- Attorney General · November 3, 2026 · Minnesota · incumbent
- Attorney General · August 11, 2026 · Minnesota · incumbent