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After taking a folksy turn Tuesday with testimony from frustrated voters, Norm Coleman’s legal team began to deliver on the tedium it promised in the trial sparked by Coleman’s election-contest lawsuit. The folksy quotient remained high, however, as storied trial attorney Joe Friedberg charmingly dragged his mostly mild but unrelenting grilling of Deputy Secretary of [...]

The trial to determine the outcome of the U.S. Senate race was slated to start up again at 9 a.m. this morning. But the proceedings have been delayed by a significant snag.
Yesterday the three-judge panel hearing the case ruled that copies of ballot envelopes that Norm Coleman’s legal team intended to enter into evidence weren’t [...]

This is the end. Or so it would seem. More than two months after election day, following a manual statewide recount, a trial to determine the winner of the U.S. Senate contest commenced at the Minnesota Supreme Court this afternoon. Norm Coleman is seeking to have the results certified by the state Canvassing Board, showing Al Franken with a 225-vote lead, tossed out. Franken wants to head to Washington.

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 “Legal Clerks II” or “Capital Mallrats” — a U.S. Senate seat hangs in the balance.
Still, prominent Minnesota attorney [...]