Republicans gained the Minnesota Home after a choose dominated that Democrat state representative-elect Curtis Johnson “didn’t meet the residency necessities and isn’t eligible to function the consultant for Minnesota Home District 40B.”
“Curtis Johnson is enjoined from taking the oath of workplace and from appearing as a member of the Minnesota Home of Representatives for Home District 40B,” the choose wrote.
The choose’s resolution comes because the Minnesota Home of Representatives is tied at 67-67.
Johnson’s Republican opponent, Paul Wikstrum, filed a lawsuit arguing Johnson didn’t meet the residency necessities.
Throughout an evidentiary listening to, Wikstrum proved Johnson lived in his dwelling outdoors of district 40B, not within the residence he was renting.
Alpha Information reported:
A Ramsey County choose issued an order on Friday discovering {that a} DFL legislator-elect “didn’t meet the residence necessities” to function the consultant for a north metro district and “is enjoined from taking the oath of workplace” as a member of the Minnesota Home of Representatives.
The choice from Choose Leonardo Castro was launched Friday morning. Republican legislative candidate Paul Wikstrum filed the lawsuit final month, alleging that Johnson by no means established residency in Home District 40B. If Johnson appeals the order, the Minnesota Supreme Courtroom would take the case within the coming days.
The choose’s order comes because the incoming Home of Representatives is tied at 67-67 amongst Republican and Democrat members. If Johnson isn’t seated, then Republicans will, a minimum of briefly, have a one-seat majority within the Minnesota Home, which might be sufficient to elect a speaker.
BREAKING: A choose guidelines that MN Democrat Curtis Johnson “didn’t meet the residency necessities and isn’t eligible to function the consultant for Minnesota Home District 40B.”
The case has enormous implications for the tied 67-67 Minnesota Home.
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