Saints praised for Coleman-Franken bobbleheads

Ballpark Digest has honored the St. Paul Saints for the team’s two-faced Norm Coleman-Al Franken bobblehead doll.

ACLU: Afraid to say he’s gay, Larry Craig took wrong case to court

U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s mistake wasn’t letting the clock run out on appealing his airport bathroom sex-solicitation case to the Minnesota Supreme Court — it was bringing the wrong case in the first place. That’s the view of Charles Samuelson, executive director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU-MN), who thinks that a refusal to acknowledge his homosexuality impeded Craig’s ability to make his legal arguments.

Like Obama’s Senate seat, Larry Craig’s bathroom stall isn’t for sale

Sorry, but it turns out that, just as you can’t buy Barack Obama’s seat in the U.S. Senate, you can’t buy the bathroom stall where U.S. Sen. Larry Craig sat or stood and tapped his foot in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The agency that runs the airport refused an apparently serious offer to buy the men’s room stall made famous by Craig’s 2007 conviction for disorderly conduct in a sex-solicitation sting operation by the airport police.

Court rules Sen. Larry Craig can’t drop guilty plea; ACLU says, ‘They’re wrong’

U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) cannot withdraw his guilty plea in the infamous 2007 Minneapolis-St. Paul airport bathroom sex case, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled today in an unpublished opinion. That means Craig is stuck with having copped in District Court to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct for allegedly signaling an interest in engaging in sex via foot taps from one restroom stall to another in which a undercover police officer was staked out. The decision’s “unpublished” status means the court doesn’t want their ruling used as precedent in future cases — interesting, in view of charges that Craig sought special treatment or was being singled out for preferential or especially harsh treatment because of his status as a U.S. Senator.

What Larry Craig should have done: Plead not guilty

A recent court case demonstrates that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, should have pleaded not guilty to charges of disorderly conduct when he was arrested in the restroom at a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport restroom in June 2007. 

A Minneapolis man…

Sen. Larry Craig’s office seeking summer interns

While Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, fights in Minnesota court to clear his name in the bathroom arrest scandal, his office in Idaho will be taking on high schoolers for a summer internship program.

“Interns have the chance to be an…

Ethics Committee slams Larry Craig

The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, on Wednesday for his behavior in the restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The committee agreed with the arresting officer, the Hennepin County District Court, the media, several men who…

ACLU aids Sen. Larry Craig in appeal effort

The American Civil Liberties Union and its Minnesota affiliate have filed papers in support of Sen. Larry Craig’s appeal effort. Craig is appealing a decision by a Minnesota court to deny his motion to have his guilty plea to disorderly…