The court's seven justices on Monday heard arguments in a challenge to a new state law that restored the vote to more than 55,000 felons on probation, parole and supervised release last year.
Whether felons on supervised release can continue to vote is now in the hands of the Minnesota Supreme Court. The court’s seven justices on Monday heard arguments in a challenge to a new state law that restored the vote to more than 55,000 felons on probation, parole and supervised release last year. The change came after decades of advocacy at the Capitol and an unsuccessful lawsuit from the .