Norm Coleman’s contest just got a boost — not legally, but financially. The Republican National Committee has transferred a quarter-million dollars to the state GOP to help cover legal costs in Coleman’s bid to regain his U.S.…
Ben Ginsberg, the flown-in rooster among Norm Coleman’s mostly local brood of election-contest attorneys, may now do his crowing in the courtroom. Until today, Ginsberg — a veteran of Bush v. Gore and the Swift Boat smearing of John…
And on the fourth day they rested? Minnesota’s top two elected officials spent the last three days talking economic stimulus on the airwaves and cable lines of two supposed bastions of liberal media, MSNBC and National Public Radio. Sen.…
Al Franken’s attorney, Marc Elias, hailed a ruling today by the three-judge panel in Minnesota’s Senate election trial to count 24 (and possibly 25) rejected absentee ballots. Elias said he was glad to see people enfranchised, but also praised the judges “because of the careful method [they used] in analyzing these ballots.”
Attorneys for former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman pounced on an end-of-the-day revelation in his election contest trial Thursday: Uncounted absentee ballots were discovered by election officials only since Wednesday. The news came just before the three-judge panel adjourned for the day, in testimony from Anoka County Elections Manager Rachel Smith before a stunned courtroom.
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…
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