Minnesota House Democrats to file lawsuit to Supreme Court arguing GOP speaker election unlawful
Minnesota House Democrats said Tuesday that they will file a number of lawsuits asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to find that Republicans’ attempt to elect a speaker and conduct business without them was unlawful because they lacked a quorum of members.
Democratic House leader Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park said she expects the Supreme Court justices will find that House Republicans acted unconstitutionally when they ignored Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon’s declaration that there was no quorum in the chamber Tuesday. Republicans continued the session without him and elected their own House speaker.
Republicans say their 67 members are all that’s required for a quorum of the current 133 sworn House members, and that they had the right to overturn the ruling of the chair Tuesday.
“What I expect is that the Minnesota Supreme Court would find that the Minnesota House was not duly organized today, that (those) who participated in the sham session violated Minnesota state law and ignored the constitutional requirement of quorum,” Hortman said at a press conference in Shakopee. She declined to offer more detail about the lawsuit or lawsuits that will be filed Tuesday or Wednesday.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/14/minnesota-house-democrats-to-file-lawsuit-to-supreme-court-arguing-gop-speaker-election-unlawful/