Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota House Bill HF3326 Compare Versions

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1	1	1.1 A resolution
2	2	1.2 memorializing Congress to exercise its power and assert its authority in order to support
3	3	1.3 and defend the Constitution of the United States.
4	4	1.4 WHEREAS, the federal government is divided into three distinct and coequal branches of
5	5	1.5government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Those branches are designed to distribute
6	6	1.6governing powers and authorities equally in order to limit the application of power of the other
7	7	1.7branches and prevent expansion of power of any branch; and
8	8	1.8 WHEREAS, the ability of any democracy to survive and flourish relies on respect for the
9	9	1.9Rule of Law by its citizens and its government, a concept that is enshrined numerous times in the
10	10	1.10nation's Founding Documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of
11	11	1.11Rights; and
12	12	1.12 WHEREAS, James Madison, the architect of the United States Constitution, wrote that "the
13	13	1.13accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands [...] may justly
14	14	1.14be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"; and
15	15	1.15 WHEREAS, since January 20, 2025, the Executive branch has usurped and exercised powers
16	16	1.16specifically delegated to the Legislative and Judicial branches, and has circumvented and disregarded
17	17	1.17the Rule of Law, including:
18	18	1.18 (1) depriving lawful residents of due process in incarceration and deportation hearings and
19	19	1.19threatening to extend such unlawful detentions and deportations to American citizens;
20	20	1.20 (2) challenging the authority of the judiciary and its rulings in a succession of cases, including
21	21	1.21calling for the removal of judges who rule against the Executive branch; arresting a member of the
22	22	1.22state judiciary; and arbitrarily threatening the impeachment of judges who check Executive branch
23	23	1.23power, prompting Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts to respond "For more than two
24	24	1.24centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement
25	25	1.25concerning a judicial decision"; and
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28	28	State of Minnesota
29	29	This Document can be made available
30	30	in alternative formats upon request
31	31	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
32	32	H. F. No. 3326
33	33	NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
34	34	Authored by Greenman, Moller, Kraft, Howard, Agbaje and others05/14/2025
35	35	The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration 2.1 (3) impounding funds duly appropriated by the legislature for expenditures, such as emergency
36	36	2.2disaster relief, critical medical research funding, including research into childhood cancer and
37	37	2.3Alzheimer's Disease; the Office of Violence Against Women; and the Head Start program; and
38	38	2.4 WHEREAS, the Executive branch is failing to protect and defend the First Amendment to
39	39	2.5the United States Constitution, and instead is infringing on academic freedom by coercing and
40	40	2.6defunding universities, punishing law firms and lawyers for the cases they take and the clients they
41	41	2.7represent, weaponizing nonprofit status of disfavored organizations, pursuing baseless investigations
42	42	2.8into political fundraising platforms that oppose the President, using the Department of Justice to
43	43	2.9pressure journalists, and detaining and revoking the lawful status of residents for protected political
44	44	2.10speech; and
45	45	2.11 WHEREAS, the Executive branch has compromised national security by circumventing
46	46	2.12background checks for Department of Governmental Efficiency appointees and other favored
47	47	2.13advisors, failing to hold Cabinet secretaries accountable for gross breaches of security resulting in
48	48	2.14unauthorized release of Americans' private data, allowing foreign incursions into our supposedly
49	49	2.15secure federal data system, and exposing sensitive military data to our nation's enemies; and
50	50	2.16 WHEREAS, members of the United States Congress swore an oath of office to support and
51	51	2.17defend the Constitution of the United States and faithfully discharge the duties of their office; NOW,
52	52	2.18THEREFORE,
53	53	2.19 BE IT RESOLVED by the legislature of the State of Minnesota that it strongly urges the
54	54	2.20Congress of the United States to exercise its constitutional powers to investigate and oversee the
55	55	2.21Executive branch and to assert its constitutional oversight authority to the fullest extent of its
56	56	2.22authority to protect the rights and freedoms guaranteed to the people under the Constitution of the
57	57	2.23United States.
58	58	2.24 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is directed
59	59	2.25to prepare copies of this memorial and transmit them to the President of the United States, the
60	60	2.26President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the Chair and ranking member of the
61	61	2.27Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the United States House of Representatives,
62	62	2.28the Chair and ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
63	63	2.29of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives,
64	64	2.30and Minnesota's Senators and Representatives in Congress.
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