DFL picks Zack Stephenson as House leader

Predictably, the House DFL caucus met Monday night to pick a new caucus chair following the assassinations of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. Predictably, the DFL picked someone from the Twin Cities. Predictably, he's worked in Mary Moriarty's district attorney's office. Predictably, he's as cookie cutter of a DFL legislator as you'll find.

Alpha News is reporting that "Late Monday night, DFL legislators in the Minnesota House of Representatives elected Rep. Zack Stephenson as their new caucus leader. The fourth-term lawmaker from Coon Rapids was expected to compete against Rep. Jamie Long of Minneapolis to replace Melissa Hortman as the top-ranking DFL House member."

Alpha is reporting this, too:

Stephenson voted party-line with his caucus during the 2025 legislative session on a number of bills that came to the House floor, including against a bill that would have prohibited biological males from participating in girls’ sports.

The part that the DFL is opposed to limiting girls' sports to women isn't surprising. Keith Ellison insists that President Trump is a bully on trans rights. That's why he's sued the federal government:

AG Ellison is likely to lose that lawsuit. Minnesota's law doesn't take precedence over Title IX. That's because Title IX is a federal civil rights law. Federal laws take precedent over state or municipal laws thanks to a provision in the U.S. Constitution called the Supremacy Clause. State Rep. Stephenson thinks that biological males should compete in women's sports, too. That isn't critical thinking. That's being an airheadd copycat.