Lawmakers in Scotland return from the summer recess to an altered political landscape in the Scottish Parliament, as the Green Party joins the ruling SNP in a cooperation agreement that will result in their first ever ministerial appointments in the UK. First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is expected to lay out the details of the agreement, which was hashed out this weekend between the two pro-independence parties. The formal cooperation shifts the balance of power in a parliament where until now the SNP has been just one vote shy of a majority. Even though the Scottish voting system—which is different from the one in Westminster—was set up to make it hard for any one party to gain a majority, the SNP currently holds 64 out of the 129 seats. The Green Party has seven seats. Green Party SMPs Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are expected to be formally …