Minnesota judges tell legislators to control the “dysfunctional” house

Friday, the Supreme Minnesota Court threw the question of who controls the Minnesota house to the leaders of the room to understand it.

In a three -page order, the judges answered a key question – it takes 68 votes to the room for the quorum – but they refused to go further and order a specific resolution to the dead end that kept The limbo of the house for more than a week.

The judges have written that they “assume that the parties will now comply with this opinion without the need to issue an official brief” or the request of the Court, leaving it to the leaders who have so far been in measure to agree on how to organize and lead business.

Above all, opinion does not deny anything of what the Republicans have done so far in the House with their 67 votes, in particular by electing their chief as a speaker for this session. This could mean that additional conflicts are ahead of the narrow room.

The High Court heard arguments Thursday in challenges to the temporary direction of the Republicans in the room during a democratic boycott. The Republicans argued that any intervention by the Court would be equivalent to a “hostile takeover”.

In her interrogation Thursday, chief judge Natalie Hudson suggested that the current political environment was unprecedented.

“What we have is a co-equal branch of the government which is completely dysfunctional, which does not make the will and the work of the people of Minnesota,” said Hudson.

Republican leaders and democrats declared that they would accept the court’s decision, but given the lack of orientation on other components, conflicts could emerge.

GOP chief Lisa Demuth, R-COLD Spring, said the Republicans would appear again at the Capitol on Monday and expect the Democrats to do the same, given the decision.

“This decision brought home the fact that the Democrats of the Chamber did not only respect their own voters, but the whole state of Minnesota by refusing to do their job,” Demuth said in a statement. “It is time for the Democrats to end up ends and for the legislator to continue his work.”

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