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In what could be the last time the forces of Al Franken and Norm Coleman clash within the same room, the drama at yesterday’s state Supreme Court hearing didn’t disappoint.

Al Franken is almost certain to prevail in the U.S. Senate election contest currently before the Minnesota Supreme Court. That’s the consensus from legal analysts following oral arguments in the lawsuit filed by Norm Coleman contesting a three-judge panel’s ruling that he lost the election by 312 votes.
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Every ballot tells a story. Or maybe it doesn’t. That’s the debate that attorneys for Al Franken and Norm Coleman grappled with in oral arguments this morning before the Minnesota Supreme Court in the U.S. Senate election contest. Following a seven-week trial — which featured 142 witnesses and roughly 20,000 pages of legal documents — a three-judge panel determined that Franken won the election by 312 votes.

Thursday’s statement by Norm Coleman attorney Joe Friedberg has generated plenty of interest at local blogs and national news sites alike, mainly for his opinion that it’s “probably correct” that Al Franken will come out on top when the three-judge panel hearing Coleman’s Senate election contest rules. USA Today responded by asking, ““When can we [...]

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.

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 break. As seen and reported on The UpTake, it was a dramatic blow for Coleman’s [...]

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. Amy Klobuchar and Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on successive nights, [...]

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 the court to examine or not examine 4,800 absentee ballots that so far aren’t included in [...]

At first Valentine’s Day seemed to have come early as Week 3 began in Minnesota’s election contest trial between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. The former senator’s lawyers started the day by calling two husband-and-wife pairs of absentee voters to the witness stand whose ballots had been rejected for improper witnessing. Then Franken attorney David Lillehaug rose to make a major objection: Coleman’s side has not answered the Franken side’s questions about the evidence they’re going to present, as the court has ordered them to do.

The 171 Maplewood ballots are off the table in the U.S. Senate contest. These ballots were discovered by local election officials in a voting machine during the manual recount and added to the vote tally. Norm Coleman’s legal team initially argued that they should not have been included in the recount, but this morning they withdrew their objection to the contested ballots.