Whether that stealth vote for House speaker was legal is an open question: Minnesota’s secretary of state, the state legislature’s presiding officer, had already concluded legislative business for the day on account of the DFL absences—which prevented Republicans from meeting the quorum threshold of 68 members. Republicans ignored the secretary and held the speaker vote anyway. On Tuesday evening, the secretary of state said he intended to challenge the speaker vote in court.

This doesn’t seem like an open question. Some conflicts aren’t “open questions”, sometimes one side is trivially wrong and can be called such.

But over the last three months, two Democrats’ state House seats have come under scrutiny. Democrats (temporarily) lost the first seat due to their own unforced error. In one liberal district, Democrats elected a representative who had not met a requirement to live in the district for at least six months prior to the general election.

Sigh. Democratic party, FFS stop treating politics like a hobby. Know the rules and check all your candidates and dates BEFORE it becomes a problem. Is someone being fired for this?