Coleman lawyers strike slacker pose: It’ll be boring, no weight on our shoulders

To hear Norm Coleman’s all-star legal team talk about the start of Minnesota’s election contest today, you’d think they were extras facing a day of monotony on the set of a Kevin Smith slacker movie. But it’s not “Legal Clerks II” or “Capital Mallrats” — a U.S. Senate seat hangs in the balance.

Still, prominent Minnesota attorney Joe Friedberg promised a “very, very tedious proceeding” during a conference call with reporters yesterday. ”It will be very boring,” he said. “There’s no way I think I can interject any jokes into it.”

Ben Ginsberg, the face of the Bush side in Florida’s 2000 aborted presidential recount, sounded like a man with nothing to lose and little at stake. “I have to say that we feel little weight on our shoulders as we go forward,” he said. While conceding that ”we are, after all, the contestant,” Ginsberg said Coleman’s attorneys feel a burden only in a “strictly legal sense.”