Coleman To Court: No, Don't Throw Out My Case
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/7/2009 — Team Coleman has just filed their formal opposition to the Franken campaign's motion to dismiss all of the various counts in the Coleman lawsuit, demonstrating a fundamental disagreement going on here: Team Franken insists that Coleman is bound to a ...

Norm Coleman: Maybe We Need A Do-Over Election
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/26/2009 — The talk from the Coleman campaign about how the Minnesota election results are unreliable, and that a do-over election could be an option, has now gone beyond just Norm Coleman's lawyers -- it's now coming from the mouth of Norm himself. Coleman ...

Liberal Hackers At It Again
powerlineblog.com 3/12/2009 — At the end of January, a hacker broke into Senator Norm Coleman's web site and gained access to information there about donors to the Coleman campaign. Coleman's staff had a forensic analysis performed and were assured that the donor information had ...

Profiles in Bad Online Organizing: Part 1 (DSCC)
openleft.com 4/9/2009 — Working for MoveOn from 2005-2008, I wrote lots of emails inviting people to take action. At Change Congress and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee , my two hats these days, I still do. I know as well as anyone that some emails that you ...

Coleman Says 'God Wants Me to Serve'
blog.lib.umn.edu 2/9/2009 — While Al Franken remains fairly elusive, Norm Coleman is keeping a high profile these days as his court challenge of the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount plods along. Coleman is adept, somewhat too adept, his critics might say, at skillfully tailoring...

Franken Isn't 'Leading', He Won and Coleman Lost
bradblog.com 4/10/2009 — Guest Blogged by Ernest A. Canning, with Brad Friedman In his March 31st article at Media Matters, Eric Boehlert contrasted the difference in corporate media coverage between Florida's 2000 Presidential election contest and Minnesota's 2008 U.S. ...

Norm Coleman’s mysterious finances
briefingroom.thehill.com 4/3/2009 — The question remains: Can Norm Coleman pay his non-Senate race legal bills from his campaign committee? The controversy over payments allegedly ordered by Coleman donor/friend Nasser Kazeminy to an agency where Coleman’s wife worked has begun to ...

Coleman/Franken Monday Roundup 4/13
njdc.org 4/13/2009 — Coleman/Franken Monday roundup: UPI: Senate seat fight drags on There is no clear end in the fight for Minnesota’s second U.S. Senate seat, say political strategists who predict the case could drag on for months NJDC Blog: Franken’s Lead Grows to 312 After Recount Despite ...

If Norm Coleman Makes a Federal Case of It, What Will Happen
acsblog.org 4/3/2009 — By Richard L. Hasen , the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and author of the Election Law Blog . Following an order issued earlier in the week by the three-judge court hearing the election ...

Franken Moves To Throw Out Coleman's Lawsuit -- Or At Least Some Of It
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/6/2009 — Al Franken's legal team has now filed their expected motion to dismiss each and every single one of Norm Coleman's legal claims in the election contest -- that is, asking that either the whole case be thrown out, or at least that some of the claims ...

Judges deal Coleman crippling blow in Minn. race (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 4/1/2009
AP - A special court on Tuesday ordered further review of 400 absentee ballots in the Minnesota Senate race, dealing a crippling blow to Republican Norm Coleman's legal challenge against Democrat Al Franken's lead.

Franken Wins Ruling in Minnesota Senate Race — NYT > Politics 4/1/2009
A three-judge panel ruled that only 400 absentee ballots — far fewer than Republican Senator Norm Coleman had sought — should be examined for possible counting.

Minnesota Judges Limit Recount in Senate Race — Wash Post Elections 4/1/2009
A three-judge state panel in Minnesota dealt Norm Coleman (R) a serious setback in his bid for reelection to the Senate, ruling yesterday that only 400 absentee ballots in his contest against entertainer Al Franken (D) may be reviewed and possibly ...

Downballot: A decisive ruling? — First Read 4/1/2009
MINNESOTA: The Star Tribune: "In a potentially decisive ruling, a panel of three judges today ordered up to 400 new absentee ballots opened and counted, far fewer than Republican Norm Coleman had sought in his effort to overcome a lead by DFLer Al ...

Coleman dealt crippling blow in Senate race — msnbc.com: Politics 4/1/2009
The former Republican senator's attorney warned of an appeal after a special court ordered further review of 400 unopened absentee ballots in the race, far fewer than he had asked to be counted.