{"id":1055,"date":"2026-05-15T03:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:42:08","slug":"minnesota-democratic-lawmakers-begin-sit-in-over-gun-violence-protection-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Democratic lawmakers begin sit-in over gun violence protection bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Samantha Sencer-Mura leads action after Republican speaker rescinds promise to bring bill to vote <\/p>\n<p>Democratic state representatives in Minnesota began a sit-in in their house chamber on Thursday night after the Republican speaker failed to put a gun violence prevention bill up for a vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Star Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/live-senate-weighs-tougher-police-impersonation-penalties-after-hortman-assassination\/601842514\">reported<\/a> the sit-in began at about 9pm local time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/minnesota-house-of-representatives-sit-in-gun-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Samantha Sencer-Mura leads action after Republican speaker rescinds promise to bring bill to vote Democratic state representatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}