equal protection

Three election-law experts who have been closely tracking the Norm Coleman-Al Franken contest for U.S. Senate weigh in today with written reactions to the final order (pdf) from the three-judge panel that heard Coleman’s complaint. All admired the order for its unanimity and deft handling of Coleman’s equal-protection claims.

Despite mass arrests at this peepful protest against the Republican National Convention (submitted to the Pioneer Press’ Peeps Diorama Contest), all of the blue and brown peeps’ charges against the pink, yellow and light-green peeps have been dropped. After the jump, a speech-balloon version of the popular Senate election-contest trial scene, and selections from the ABA [...]

Senate Republicans advise Norm Coleman to make a federal case out of his election contest, if that’s what he wants to do. But one legal expert says he’d only be wasting his time.

Democrat Al Franken’s future now depends on how the three-judge panel presiding over Norm Coleman’s election contest trial handles the former Republican senator’s equal-protection claims, writes election law expert Ned Foley.

Joe Friedberg, the star attorney who gave the closing arguments for Norm Coleman last week in Minnesota’s Senate trial, predicts his client won’t prevail in the election contest without appealing to the state Supreme Court.