Ohio State University election law expert Edward B. Foley takes a long, hard look at Norm Coleman’s appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court and finds the case to be more of a morass than he initially thought.
Norm Coleman is crying crocodile tears over David Souter’s departure from the U.S. Supreme Court. Coleman may bring a senate-election case to the nation’s high court that relies on the court’s 2000 Bush v. Gore recount case — and Souter abhorred that decision more viscerally than any successor could.
Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court when the court’s current term is over at the end of June. Souter will likely stay on until President Obama’s nominee to replace him has…
“You really can’t start a transition until you’ve been elected president.” Those words of advice were offered to George W. Bush on TV Nov. 28, 2000, two weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore made…
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter announced today that he is switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party. That means Minnesota’s empty U.S. Senate seat could become the Democrats’ sixtieth — the number needed to break a Republican filibuster. Specter’s move increases the pressure enormously on Minnesota officials in a position to control the outcome of the disputed Senate election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
Lawyers for Al Franken are trying to turn Norm Coleman’s recent media blitz into a justice blitz, using comments from the Republican campaign in news reports to persuade the the Minnesota Supreme Court to speed up Coleman’s appeal.
Norm Coleman has kept his word and filed a petition to appeal his election-contest loss today to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The former U.S. senator’s petition asks the state’s high court to find fault with last week’s election contest court ruling that Democrat Al Franken won Coleman’s old Senate seat by 312 votes.
“I am honored and humbled by this close victory,” Al Franken announced to reporters from his townhouse stoop in downtown Minneapolis Monday night. Asked about Norm Coleman’s pledge to appeal the Monday court order that confirmed Franken’s recount win, the Democrat said, “I believe I will be certified” as U.S. Senator.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he might not sign an election certificate to seat Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman in the U.S. Senate, even after the Minnesota Supreme Court is done with the disputed election.
“I also would…
Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Christopher Dietzen donated twice to the campaign of Norm Coleman, Federal Election Commission records show. Two justices have already said they’d recuse themselves from an expected Coleman election-contest appeal, but word of any further recusals won’t come until the high court accepts an appeal and lays out ground rules in an initial order, a court spokesman tells MnIndy.
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