The Minnesota Supreme Court handed Democrats a major win on Friday, effectively ruling that Republicans didn’t have enough members to conduct business in the Minnesota House.

The state’s highest court ruled that a quorum — the necessary number of members needed to conduct business — is 68 members out of 134 officials.

Republicans had been conducting business, electing a Speaker and introducing legislation with 67 members present, arguing that with one vacant House seat, 67 members represented a majority of the 133 current elected officials.

But the state Supreme Court disagreed with their interpretation of a quorum.

“Vacancies do not reduce the number required for a majority of each house to constitute a quorum,” the court ruled. “By statute, the total number of seats in........

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