Page picks his Flying V of election contest judges

In today’s draft for Minnesota Senate election judges, Associate Supreme Court Justice Alan Page picked District Court judges Elizabeth A. Hayden, Kurt Marben and Denise Reilly. A veritable flying wedge of jurisprudence, the trio constitutes the panel that will decide the election contest court action brought by former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman in an attempt to keep Al Franken from taking his former seat.

Hayden, an appointee of former Gov. Rudy Perpich (DFL) is from Stearns County in the state’s Seventh Judicial District. Marben, of Pennington County, was appointed by former Gov. Jesse Venutura (Independence Party). Reilly is a Hennepin County judge in the Fourth District and an appointee of then-Republican Gov. Arne Carlson — who in his current incarnation as an independent has said that Coleman should concede.