The Supreme Court justices listened to oral arguments for more than an hour and are expected to issue a ruling quickly.
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday to get to the bottom of one question: How many Minnesota House members need to be physically present at the Capitol to legally conduct business?
The Saint Paul Federation of Educators released a statement condemning Trump's first wave of executive orders.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether it should wade into a partisan power struggle that has roiled the state House for over a week, with Democratic lawmakers boycotting the state Capitol to try to prevent their Republican colleagues from exploiting their temporary one-seat majority.
Democrats in the Minnesota House who have boycotted daily sessions are using tactics that lawmakers elsewhere have tried dozens of times in seeking to thwart their opponents.
The legislative session in Minnesota opened Tuesday to a brutal proxy fight and a Democratic-led boycott over who will control the House chamber after voters in November sent an equal amount of Democratic and Republican lawmakers to the state House.
With House DFLers absent from the capitol for 10 days, House Republicans have been moving forward with regular business.
There's bipartisan interest in anti-fraud legislation, but nothing can get done until the House dispute is resolved.
Democrats are boycotting the GOP-led House proceedings in an effort to deny a quorum and stop Republicans from claiming the speakership.
The Minnesota Supreme Court is considering how deeply it should intervene in a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans over control of the state House.
Less than a week after Minnesota Democrats filed a lawsuit asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to declare the state’s Republicans acted in an unlawful manner when members of the House of Representatives declared a quorum and seated positions of power,
Democrats and Republicans in the Minnesota House are embroiled in a standoff over who controls the lower chamber just months out from the election, which is already derailing the start of their