ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and House Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session. Simon, a Democrat, petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court late Tuesday to declare that he legally remains the presiding officer in the Minnesota House, for now, and that Tuesday’s election of GOP leader Lisa Demuth as speaker w…

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Minnesota Democrats ask state Supreme Court to resolve state House power struggle

Democrats have asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session. Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon

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Minnesota House Democrats and Secretary of State Steve Simon have requested the state’s Supreme Court resolve the power struggle unfolding in the lower chamber. House Republicans and Democrats have been embroiled in a fight over whether the state House GOP has majority rule. Democrats refused to show up to work on Tuesday and Wednesday, upset that Republicans, who hold a narrow 67-66 majority in the chamber, have not agreed to terms over sharing…

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ST. PAUL — Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and House Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session. Simon, a Democrat, petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court late Tuesday to declare that he legally remains the presiding officer in the Minnesota House, for now, and that Tuesday’s election of GOP leader Lisa Demuth as speaker was invalid. …

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and House Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session that extended into a second day Wednesday. Simon, a Democrat, petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court late Tuesday to declare that he legally remains the presiding officer in the Minnesota House, for now, and that Tuesday’s elect…

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House Democrats and Secretary of State Steve Simon filed separate petitions with the Minnesota Supreme Court seeking to nullify Republicans' actions on the first day of the legislative session.

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Democrats petition Supreme Court to declare GOP lacked quorum to elect speaker

Minnesota's DFL leaders have petitioned the Supreme Court to decide what constitutes a quorum needed to conduct official business in the Minnesota House of Representatives, after what they called a "coup attempt" by GOP members on the first day of the legislative session.

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MN DFL files petition to Supreme Court over GOP House control

Secretary of State Steve Simon and House Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session.

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DFLers ask Supreme Court to resolve House power struggle

Share This StoryState Democrats believe that the actions taken by their Republican colleagues during the opening day of the legislative session “were improper and unlawful” and have asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to declare them as such. Both the House DFL Caucus and Secretary of State Steve Simon filed petitions with the court Tuesday, asking the DFL-appointed justices to declare the Republicans’ actions “null and void.” “Republicans’ sham s…

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