Good morning, and congratulations for making it to another well-earned Friday. 

A Hennepin County judge on Thursday approved a plan for court oversight of the Minneapolis Police Department — one that state human rights officials say will compel the MPD to make “transformational changes” around public safety and racial discrimination. MPR’s Matt Sepic and Nina Moini report that among its provisions, the agreement calls for a redefinition of the use of force and limits on the use of Tasers and traffic stops. It “captures the scope of the necessary work ahead to address race-based policing, a plague on our city that harms everyone, especially people of color and Indigenous community members,” Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero in a statement. 

One thing not on the menu at this year’s State Fair is legal marijuana. MPR’s Dana Ferguson reports: Although it will become legal in Minnesota to possess, use and grow marijuana starting Aug. 1, the fair will prohibit smoking cannabis on its grounds. The State Fair has legal autonomy similar to a municipality and can set parameters within its area. And State Fair CEO Renee Alexander said that means no lighting up — at least for now. “The smoking of marijuana is still not not allowed in public, it’s still prohibited in public. So we will follow those guidelines just like other public places will,” she said. “We're not moving forward with any type of sales or anything at this point as it relates to marijuana. We'll give it some time.” The State Fair board could weigh rule changes later that allow for marijuana use and consumption at the fair, Alexander said. But with limited infrastructure for enforcement, she said it won’t be allowed in 2023.

That news comes on the heels of a decision by the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe to begin selling marijuana as soon as it’s legal. MPR's Melissa Olson reports Red Lake Nation is preparing to sell recreational marijuana at its dispensary on Aug. 1, the same day Minnesota legalizes cannabis use. Red Lake’s dispensary, NativeCare, has been providing medical marijuana to band members and non-members since April. 

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was in the Twin Cities Thursday speaking before a group of lawyers and judges. The Associated Press reports: Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed to the mixed U.S. Supreme Court decisions this term as he sought Thursday to dispel notions that it is partisan, even after conservatives brought about the end of affirmative action in college admissions and struck down President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief program. “The court is an institution of law. It's an institution of law not of politics, not of partisanship,” Kavanaugh said at the conference in Minnesota, in the first public remarks by a justice since the court recessed for the summer late last month. “We have lived up, in my estimation, to deciding cases based on law and not based on partisan affiliation and partisanship," Kavanaugh said. "We don't caucus in separate rooms. We don't meet separately. We're not sitting on different sides of the aisle at an oral argument. ... We work as a group of nine.”