On June 16, just two weeks from now, Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL) is due to stand trial for burglary. As I noted in the Summer 2024 issue of our magazine…
The setting Minnesota’s legislators have until next Monday to finalized a budget for the 2026-2027 biennium, and there is still a lot of work to do. The setting is the…
The Republican Last Tuesday, Republican state Senator Justin Eichorn was “arrested on suspicion of soliciting a minor for prostitution.” His Republican colleagues in the state Senate immediately called for his…
After three and a half weeks of shutting down state government, House Democratic leaders finally buckled under the pressure and announced they would give the speaker’s gavel to Republican Lisa…
The tragic passing of Sen. Kari Dziedzic in December left Minnesota’s state Senate balanced at 33-33 pending a special election to fill the vacant seat. For the start of the…
Last Wednesday, my colleague, Bill Glahn, wrote that KSTP had found that there are 62 fraud investigations currently underway involving federally-funded Minnesota child care centers. Two days later, he wrote:…
The warring parties in the Minnesota House of Representatives shutdown will be returning to the state Supreme Court next week, in an effort to break the three-week-old impasse. In this…
The warring parties in the MN House of Representatives shutdown will be returning to the state Supreme Court next week, in an effort to break the three-week-old impasse. In this…
I’m guessing that most Minnesotans aren’t even aware that the state House of Representatives is nonfunctioning. I don’t blame them. People have to live their lives, work their jobs, get…
The executive branch has seized control of both the floor of the Minnesota House of Representatives along with control of the chamber website and media operation. Moving far beyond any…
Minnesotans’ hopes that House DFLers would bank their Supreme Court win and show up to work yesterday were disappointed. All 67 Republicans were in the chamber at 3:30 p.m. when…
The shenanigans in the Minnesota House of Representatives have tended to obscure the fact that the legislature’s other house, the Senate, has been functioning smoothly. Until today. You may recall…
A frequent question/comment I get from readers regarding Constitutional Crisis 2025TM (now in Day 14) concerns elections for Supreme Court justices. Under the Minnesota system, justices are appointed by the…
On Friday, Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the DFL’s position that a quorum in the state House requires 68 Representatives to be present. What happens now? The House…
The state Senate is now the only remaining legislative chamber. On Friday afternoon, the all-Democrat MN Supreme Court sided with the minority House Democrats to wipe out the first two…
It’s been portrayed as a narrow decision answering the question of “What is a quorum, 67 or 68?” As always in such matters, the decision was handed down on a…
Today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a quorum in the legislature “requires a majority of the total number of seats of each house. Vacancies do not reduce the number…
This afternoon, Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the DFL’s position that a quorum in the state House requires 68 Representatives to be present. So what happens now? Not…
At their last meeting, Benton County commissioners left no question about where they stand on the boycott of the 2025 legislative session by DFL members of the Minnesota House of…
Quorum, Tabke, protesters, boycotts, power sharing — Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth covers it all on the American Experiment podcast. Grace and Kathryn talk with Speaker of the House…
It was a big day in Minnesota’s Constitutional Crisis, with movement on all fronts. The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments today at 1 p.m. on the crucial question of…
Center of the American Experiment filed an amicus brief with the Minnesota Supreme Court this week supporting the position that 67 members constitutes a quorum in the Minnesota House because…
The MN House of Representatives met at noon today for the fifth time in their 2025 session. Again, no Democrats have bothered to attend today’s floor session. Another 183 bills…
As the temperature outside drops, the drama in the Capitol HEATS UP! Grace, Kathryn, and President of the American Experiment John Hinderaker break it all down for us in this…