Karen Monahan refuses to disappear. Much to the chagrin of the Democratic Party, the courts may soon catch up to Rep. Keith Ellison. The moment approaches when a Hennepin County District Court will release Ellison’s 2012 divorce records, even as Ellison, the frontrunner to become Minnesota’s attorney general, has appealed to prevent the motion.

The heightened inquiry into Ellison’s past comes at the heels of allegations that Ellison was emotionally and physically abusive towards Monahan, a progressive organizer for the Sierra Club. While Democrats from DNC Chair Tom Perez to woke Sens. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar have dismissed Monahan’s allegations, local reporters at Minnesota’s Star Tribune filed the motion to acquire Ellison’s divorce records.