High court vacancy adds ‘urgency’ to Minnesota legislative races A new justice to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death would likely alter the ideological makeup of the court and potentially set a new course on abortion and reproductive health. It puts added focus on who writes Minnesota’s laws in those areas. "I would say the sense of urgency changed", said Maggie Meyer, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota. On the other side of the issue, Paul Stark, of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, agreed.
Stark said a reconfigured high court where justices opposed to legal abortion hold sway underscores the importance of having legislators who would enact restrictions. "It will affect what we can do in Minnesota in the Minnesota Legislature," Stark said. -- Brian Bakst, MPR News
Rep. Omar fires back against President Trump's anti-immigrant attack “She’s telling us how to run our country,” Trump told supporters in Moon Township, Pa., near Pittsburgh, after claiming Omar was one of the reasons he believes he’ll win Minnesota in November's election.
“How did you do where you came from? How was your country doing?” the president mused of Omar, who emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia as a child refugee.
“Firstly, this is my country & I am a member of the House that impeached you,” Omar snapped back at the president later, in a retweet of his comments. “Secondly, I fled civil war when I was 8. An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one.” (Fox News)
QAnon on the ballot: Six GOP-endorsed Minnesota candidates back conspiracy theory “At least a half-dozen Minnesota Republicans running for state legislative seats in November have promoted the sprawling QAnon conspiracy theory that includes false claims that Satanists and pedophiles run the government and that COVID-19 is part of a plot to steal the election, Stephen Montemayor reports in the Star Tribune. "Once dismissed as a fringe movement, QAnon is quickly seeping into mainstream Republican politics as scores of GOP candidates across the country express support for its ideas.” ( Star Tribune)
