Simon v. Demuth

In January 2025, 67 House GOP members present at the start of the legislative session attempted to overrule the Minnesota Secretary of State’s decision to adjourn the body for lack of a quorum. The Minnesota Secretary of State brought a claim against members of the state House of Representatives, asserting that the House did not have a quorum to transact business pursuant to constitution’s quorum clause—and that 68 out of the 133 members needed to be present to constitute a quorum. Ruled that the quorum clause in Article IV, Section 13, of the Minnesota Constitution requires a majority of the total number of seats of which each house may consist to constitute a quorum, without reference to vacancies, and that the House did not have a quorum.