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Minnesota’s Supreme Court is set to decide the fate of voting rights for felons on supervised release, with oral arguments scheduled Monday in a conservative group’s challenge to the new law. Last year Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill restoring the vote to around 55,000 Minnesotans with felony convictions who had been released but are still on probation. The change came after decades of effort at .
Minnesota restored voting rights for felons on supervised release last year. But soon after the bill became law, a conservative legal group filed a challenge.
(St. Paul, MN) The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this morning (Mon 9am) on a challenge to the state s new felon voting law. Attorney James Dickey of