A bit of trivia, here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2003, when the Legislature passed “Shall Issue” reform, the law required the state to honor carry permits in all state and municipal government buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But there was one big exception.<\/p>\n
The Minnesota Judicial Branch chimed in and said, in effect, that the Legislature couldn’t tell the Judicial Branch how to run its facilities.\u00a0 It was part of the separation of powers in state, as well as federal, government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And so being caught with a permitted firearm in a building with a courtroom or Judicial Branch facility, no matter how deviously concealed, can still get you rung up for a felony in Minnesota.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because Judicial Branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the predicates for the state’s current constitutional crisis is the contested election in House District 54A between Republican Aaron Paul and DFL incumbent Brad Tabke.\u00a0 Tabke won the initial round of voting by a 14 vote margin – but 20 ballots were “inadvertently” destroyed, and 30 more were duplicates, and you know f****ng well who those “mistakes” benefitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, Tabke was one of the DFL legislators “sworn in” at the covert “ceremony” at the History Center over the weekend.\u00a0Which is getting a bit ahead of Judge Perzel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
And Aaron Paul knows it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n