The Minnesota Legislature has its sixth special session of the year today over Governor Tim Walz’s COVID emergency orders. Republicans have tried to end the governor’s emergency powers and force his hand by removing cabinet members, but it appears this time they’ll try a different approach: a bill allowing the legislature to selectively cancel certain emergency orders — perhaps bar and restaurant restrictions — instead of ending each and every one of them. Red Wing Representative Barb Haley says, “The governor has said, this will take all of us working together to manage the COVID. Well, ‘all of us’ should include the legislature.”
The question: Would Democrats go along with such a bill, and would the governor sign it?