franken colemanThere’s still no ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court in the Norm Coleman-Al Franken dispute. The court released another regular Thursday morning batch of orders without a word on Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election. The word about the Coleman-Franken fight emblazoned across the cover of the Star Tribune is “agonizing,” but the story makes it sound more so for the few remaining staffers than for the candidates themselves.

Coleman is said to be grilling and kicking back at his cabin. Franken is blissing out because he knows there’s nothing he can do now to affect the ruling.

Meanwhile, their helpmates sweat bullets. Franken aide Jess McIntosh is on tenterhooks until she knows the Supreme Court justices have gone home for the day. And Coleman sidekick Tom Erickson tells the Strib’s Pat Lopez, “I’m afraid to even go to a movie.”

Which doesn’t quite compute with Erickson’s announcement via Twitter Wednesday:

Tomorrow I depart on my first vacation in 4 1/2 years. And no, I am not going to Argentina.

Franken refused to be interviewed, Lopez notes, but she doesn’t directly quote Coleman either, so it’s not clear what he did to help out with the story.