Wall Street Journal

“Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election,” pronounced the Wall Street Journal’s editorialists today. Election-law expert Edward Foley was quick to respond: “[T]his election was about as far from ‘stolen’ as any extraordinarily close and intensely disputed election could be — and to use that term in this context is [...]

Norm Coleman wasn’t the only one whose Minnesota court appeal this week got noticed in the national press. Thursday’s Wall Street Journal highlighted SaveWCAL’s legal effort to up-end the 2004 radio-station sale by St. Olaf College that created Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current. Static between St. Olaf and its alumni provided some crackle to a [...]

You’ve heard of carbon offsets; newspapers seem to be doing something similar with offsetting editorials for and against Norm Coleman’s legal appeals to reclaim his old U.S. Senate seat. Over the weekend it was the Wall Street Journal egging Coleman on (sorry, bad metaphor), while the Bemidji Pioneer, a reliable outpost of Coleman support in [...]

The State Canvassing Board’s determination earlier this week that Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race by 225 votes has caused some rather unseemly frothing among right-wing pundits. The talking points were initially established by the Wall Street Journal editorial board, which after years of railing against “judicial activism” strangely castigated the canvassing board for [...]

The Wall Street Journal today ran Ramsey County District Judge Edward Cleary’s letter, which took the paper to task for its Jan. 5 editorial on the Senate recount, “Funny Business in Minnesota.” A few words and phrases that were in the version Cleary sent are missing, including “reflects poorly on the author,” “the numerous inaccuracies” [...]

The St. Paul Pioneer Press sees fit today to run a Jan. 5 Wall Street Journal editorial on the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount that nearly everyone but Rush Limbaugh has laughed off for its woolly inaccuracies and hidebound misrepresentations. Does the PiPress editorial staff let stand the errors that their WSJ counterparts committed to print two days [...]

When the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal last weighed in on Minnesota’s still-undecided Senate race, it was frothing about supposedly nefarious behavior by local election officials that was threatening the integrity of the process. Yesterday the lead recount attorney for Al Franken’s campaign, Marc Elias, wrote in to correct the record.
Now the WSJ [...]