WA Senate Majority Leader Faces Hostile Supreme Court SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) - Raising taxes takes a two-thirds vote of the legislature in this state. But a key lawmaker is challenging the constitutionality of that rule. Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, a Spokane Democrat, faced a skeptical state Supreme Court. KPLU's Austin Jenkins has the story. © Copyright 2009, KPLU