blogs.usatoday.com - 3/13/2009
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The latest battle in Minnesota's four-month war over who was elected to the Senate is coming to a close. Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken have now both rested their cases in the seven-week-old trial to determine who won the race. Franken leads Coleman with 225 votes out of 2.9 ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 3/13/2009
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The closing arguments in the Minnesota election trial
are now over, bringing the proceedings in this trial...
itself to an end. We now await the ruling from the court, and any subsequent appeals that might occur. First up, let's take a look at ...
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Team Franken's Closing Arguments: Franken Won, And ...
twincities.com - 3/12/2009
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twincities.com —
Former Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign didn't do enough
to protect donors' confidential information, and Wednesday that lapse...
came home to roost as more than 4,700 partial credit card numbers were posted on the Internet. As data-privacy and security ...
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Donors, security experts blast Coleman campaign as ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 3/12/2009
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Tomorrow is going to be a big day
in the Minnesota trial: Closing arguments, which will then...
bring this whole phase of the court proceedings to an end, pending a ruling and subsequent appeals. And what happens next could be very long -- or not. ...
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Minnesota Closing Arguments Tomorrow -- How Long Until ...
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Franken rests
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Coleman, Franken head to closing arguments ... In a conference call with reporters, Franken attorney Marc Elias said both sides will present closing arguments tomorrow and then the judges in the special court created to hear the case will begin deliberations. "After four and a half months we are now near the very end of what has been a thorough and complete and extensive process," Elias said ... http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2009/03/coleman-fr...
Franken/Coleman Closing Arguments Are Done
Politics Daily —
... arguments have just wrapped up in Norm Coleman's challenge to Al Franken's 225-vote victory in the Minnesota Senate election. So that means that this race is almost over! Just kidding. Because regardless of what happens, one of the candidates will file another challenge, and then after that another challenge, and so on until the 2014 election, during which Minnesotans will vote to deport both Coleman and Franken to Guam. But for today, everyone is pretending that this is the end. The latest battle in Minnesota's four-month war ...
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(CNN) — 129 days and counting.
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Closing arguments wrap in Minn. Senate battle —
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Judges began deliberating Friday in the dispute over Minnesota's vacant Senate seat, where they must decide if Republican Norm Coleman proved there were enough flaws in the election and a recount to invalidate Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote ...
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