Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison have petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court to decide a case that could transform how the Minnesota Legislature writes and passes legislation.

In its essence, the case poses the question: When is the process behind passing legislation so atrocious it is actually illegal?

Last week, Walz and Ellison appealed a ruling by a Ramsey County judge who found that the state’s ban on binary triggers on guns violates a clause in the Minnesota Constitution, written in 1858, that “No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.”

The binary trigger ban was part of House File 5247, better known as the omnibus policy bill, a 1,430-page Leviathan that raucously passed the Legislature in the waning moments of thei

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