Senate Majority Harry Reid is drawing a new line in the snow, naming a date by which he’s pledging to have Al Franken seated as Minnesota’s next senator: April Fool’s Day. Democrats will invoke the Senate’s privilege to seat…
The Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate contest will be decided in the Minnesota Supreme Court, according to election law experts. But other factors could possibly have the outcome decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Testimony from a witness for Norm Coleman was stricken from the court record today when the three judges in Minnesota’s election contest trial agreed with Al Franken’s side that Coleman lawyers should not have shared notes with her during a…
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…
Norm Coleman’s campaign sent another e-mail plea for money today, this time linked to a new video featuring nearly a dozen Republican leaders also asking for cash to help the former U.S. senator regain his seat. The e-mail cites Democratic…
The three judges who will decide whether Norm Coleman prevails in his election contest of Minnesota’s Senate recount limited their scope late today by ruling out re-examination of at least 12 out of 19 ballot categories.
“[T]he facts presented…
Norm Coleman released a new video to raise funds for his legal battle to wrest his old Senate seat from Democratic challenger Al Franken.
“I will win this election,” Coleman promises in the video. His unusually dramatic line reading…
The Minnesota senate election contest trial could take a turn today, and you can watch it here live (via The UpTake) starting at 1 p.m. Central Time. Lawyers for Norm Coleman and Al Franken will make their pitches for…
Saying out loud that forestalling Al Franken’s likely seating in the U.S. Senate helps the Republicans? It’s not just for Democrats and Huffington Post reporters anymore. In an article headlined “GOP senators in no hurry for Minn.…
Like other Minnesota pols, Norm Coleman likes to invoke the memory of the late Hubert H. Humphrey, whose Senate seat the Republican held until last month (and which he is now trying to regain in court). The latest example came in a newspaper column opposing the Senate stimulus bill in which Coleman claimed to quote Humphrey, deftly identifying himself with the legendary leader of Minnesota’s DFL Party. But signs are scant that Humphrey spoke those words — unless Coleman meant the other Hubert Humphrey?
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