The Legislature opened its session on Jan. 14. But the House hasn’t been able to operate at full capacity.
Democrats are boycotting and Republicans have declined to cut a deal to share power or commit to leaving a DFL win in a contested House election intact.
Now the Minnesota Supreme Court is involved.
Will a ruling by justices settle things or could the standoff linger deeper into the session?
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MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst talked to the two Minnesota lawmakers with a role in the power struggle.
Rep. Jamie Long DFL-Minneapolis (left) and Rep. Harry Niska, R-Ramsey (right) pose for a photo inside the Kling Public Media Center in St. Paul on Friday.
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Later, he spoke with two legal scholars about how the constitutional tug-of-war is playing out.
MPR News host Brian Bakst (left) talks with Devin Driscoll (right), a professor teaching constitutional law at the University of Minnesota while also practicing law at a Minneapolis firm and David Schultz (center), a political science and legal studies professor at Hamline University, in an MPR News studio on Friday.
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Guests:
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Rep. Harry Niska, R-Ramsey
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Rep. Jamie Long DFL-Minneapolis
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Hamline University professor of political science and legal studies David Schultz
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University of Minnesota constitutional law instructor Devin Driscoll
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