No.

Minnesota law requires that the official state flag be flown at the state Capitol.

A new official flag was adopted last year after its proposal by the State Emblems Redesign Commission. It replaced a flag that had flown since 1983 but had been criticized for its depiction of Indigenous peoples.

The law says that the “official state flag shall be flown on the State Capitol grounds at all times between sunrise and sunset.”

Could a governor change the official Minnesota flag?

Again, no.

According to the same law: “The design of the state flag as certified in the report of the State Emblems Redesign Commission, as established by Laws 2023, chapter 62, article 2, section 118, is adopted as the official state flag.”

In order to change the statute, the Legislature would have to adopt a

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