James Langdon

Norm Coleman filed his appeal of the U.S. Senate election contest with the Minnesota Supreme Court today, citing “deliberate and disparate treatment” of absentee ballots.

“Set aside the election.”
Those four words appear as the “most appropriate remedy,” in a letter that Norm Coleman’s lawyer, James Langdon, sent to the judges Monday in the former Minnesota senator’s election contest trial. The letter cites eight cases from other states in which courts found “the number of illegal votes exceeds the margin between the candidates.”

Al Franken should be allowed to serve in the U.S. Senate while a legal contest over the results of the election is heard in state court. That was, in essence, the argument made by Franken’s lawyer in a hearing before the Minnesota Supreme Court this morning.