Minnesota Republicans Move to Impeach Walz, AG Ellison

process requires a majority vote in the state House before advancing to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is needed for conviction and removal.

The Minnesota House is currently evenly divided 67–67, meaning Republicans would need full support within their caucus and at least one Democrat to join them in order to move impeachment articles forward. In the Senate, where Democrats hold a narrow majority, reaching the two-thirds threshold would be significantly more difficult.

As the fraud scandal began to mount late last year, spreading mostly through Minneapolis’s Somali community, Walz dropped his bid for a third term and announced he would be leaving politics altogether. Ellison, meanwhile, is running for a third term, apparently confident that his alleged grifting, light on crime approach, and preference for communism won’t matter to a majority of voters.