{"id":89069,"date":"2025-01-16T06:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89069"},"modified":"2025-01-16T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:38:12","slug":"89069","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89069","title":{"rendered":"Restraint Called For"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The dispute over Minnesota&#8217;s convoluted election issues has moved to the Minnesota Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy &#8211; and who knows, maybe correct &#8211; to say &#8220;they&#8217;re all DFL appointees, so it&#8217;s a foregone conclusion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly easy &#8211; and, sometimes, justified &#8211; to feel cynical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if the courts rule according to the MN Constitution, the conclusions should be pretty simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Judicial Branch shouldn&#8217;t interfere in the Legislature&#8217;s enumerated powers.<\/li>\n<li>The Governor violated the clear language of the law in scheduling the special elections in HD40B (and maybe the weirdly restrictive time frame of the SD60 special election, if you asked me, but nobody did).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just saying &#8211; keep your fingers crossed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A longer clip, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanDWilsonMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RyanDWilsonMN<\/a> was masterful in his exchange with the Minnesota Supreme Court today.<br><br>Reminder: Wilson has beaten Tim Walz in court before \u2014 even winning unanimous rulings from this all-Democrat-appointed bench. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VosnGyIIxj\">pic.twitter.com\/VosnGyIIxj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1879596447806697945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s only the legitimacy of the MSC and the integrity of the Minnesota Constitution at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dispute over Minnesota&#8217;s convoluted election issues has moved to the Minnesota Supreme Court. It&#8217;s easy &#8211; and who knows, maybe correct &#8211; to say &#8220;they&#8217;re all DFL appointees, so it&#8217;s a foregone conclusion&#8221;. It&#8217;s certainly easy &#8211; and, sometimes, justified &#8211; to feel cynical.\u00a0 But if the courts rule according to the MN Constitution, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-89069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","tag-the-dfl-power-grab-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89071,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89069\/revisions\/89071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}