Republicans’ first step toward an impeachment probe of two top Minnesota Democrats—the governor and attorney general—ended in a tie vote along party lines April 15, killing the measure.
The vote at the Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, came after GOP lawmakers introduced resolutions to impeach Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, who have been under fire for the state’s multibillion-dollar government-fraud scandal.
But because impeachment procedures aren’t specified in the state Constitution, lawmakers needed to set a framework for any such probe, said Republican Rep. Harry Niska, chair of the House rules committee that was considering the proposal….