swampland.blogs.time.com - 6/30/2009
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The Minnesota Supreme Court this afternoon ruled unanimously that Al Franken is “entitled to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota.” Barring an appeal by G.O.P. incumbent Norm Coleman to the U.S. Supreme Court -- an appeal that court would be ...
SCOTUS: Teen Strip-Search Unconstitutional, But ...
dailykos.com 6/25/2009 — In an 8-1 decision this morning , the Supreme Court of the United States held that 13-year old Savana Redding's constitutional rights were violated when school officials suspecting her of hiding prescription-strength Advil and Aleve forced her to ...
Time for Franken to be Seated in U.S. Senate
njdc.org 6/30/2009 — Today, Marc R. Stanley, Chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), released the following statement:
NJDC welcomes the unanimous decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court rejecting former Senator Norm Coleman’s legal appeal. We trust that this decision will pave the way ...
Al Franken wins
powerlineblog.com 7/1/2009 — The Minnesota Supreme Court has issued a unanimous per curiam ruling against Norm Coleman in favor of Al Franken on Coleman's appeal of the election contest panel decision awarding the election to Franken. The Minnesota Supreme Court expresses no ...
Carol Platt Liebau: Welcome, Senator Franken
townhall.com 7/1/2009 — The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that Al Franken is entitled to become the state's next U.S. senator. Norm Coleman has said he won't appeal. So there really is nothing to be done besides for Governor Pawlenty to...
Senator (Elect) Franken —
PoliPundit.com
From Norm Coleman;
Dear Friend,
The news has arrived from the Minnesota Supreme Court and the conclusion to the 2008 United States Senate election has been reached.
I want you to be among the first to know of my decision to congratulate our newest Senator, Al Franken, for his victory. ...
Al Franken Wins His Case —
Discourse.net
Former Senator Norman Coleman’s appeal of a court decision rejecting various challenges to Al Franken’s Senate victory has failed on all counts. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously per curiam for Franken on every issue.
The possibilities for obstruction are now either ...
Senator Al Franken —
Patterico's Pontifications
[Guest post by DRJ]
The Minnesota Supreme Court has unanimously ruled Al Franken is entitled to be the junior Senator from Minnesota. Former Senator Norm Coleman’s appeal based on unfairly rejected absentee ballots was found lacking:
“Coleman’s appeal hinged largely on ...
Al Franken Won. Coleman Lost. —
BlondeSense
What a waste of time. Seven and half months.The Minnesota Supreme Court has handed down its much-expected ruling in the heavily-litigated Minnesota Senate race from 2008 -- and it's a unanimous one -- deciding against Republican former Sen. Norm Coleman's appeal of his defeat in the election ...
Minn. Supremes rule unanimously for Franken —
Ben Smith's Blog
Perhaps the final blow to Norm Coleman.
Manu Raju :
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled Al Franken the winner of last November’s Senate race, putting the former “Saturday Night Live” star on the brink of becoming a United States senator and Democrats ...
Coleman Concedes Election to Franken —
Politics Daily
Seven months after his battle to defend his U.S. Senate seat, Norm Coleman has conceded the election to his Democratic opponent. "I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United States Senator, Al Franken," he said Tuesday.
In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court ...
Franken Wins, Court Says —
Politics Daily
In a unanimous ruling, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Al Franken and against Norm Coleman in the ongoing dispute over the results of the November 2008 election for Minnesota's Senate seat.
In the 5-0 opinion , the justices wrote, "The question presented on appeal is ...
Obama’s Racist Judge —
Stop The ACLU
Soon the Senate will take up the cause of President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. In the news this week, one of her decisions that appeared before the current court was reversed. With Sotomayor in the news, then, it is time to look her over once ...
Obama’s Racist Judge —
RedState: Conservative News and Community
Soon the Senate will take up the cause of President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. In the news this week, one of her decisions that appeared before the current court was reversed. With Sotomayor in the news, then, it is time to look her over once ...
The Ricci Case —
Matthew Yglesias
As expected, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision reversing the Second Circuit’s decision on the Ricci firefighter case. As Ian Millhiser explains :
For 25 years, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has given employers broad discretion to reconsider a ...
Supreme Court Orders Some Return To Sanity In Schools —
PoliGazette
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a strip search of a 13-year-old girl in a hunt for ibuprofen (brand name: Advil) was unconstitutional. The court relied on a 1985 precedent that requires searches of students take into account the severity of the offense and the age and sex of the ...
Courtly Politics —
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
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English-Only Group Can't Spell the Word 'Conference' —
Politics Daily
Should English be the official language of the United States? That assertion was made over the weekend at a conference hosted by talk-show personality and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. Oddly, as the featured speakers delivered their remarks ridiculing Supreme Court nominee Sonia ...
Opinion Recap: Yeager v. US —
SCOTUSblog
Stanford clinic student Samantha Bateman discusses Thursday’s decision in Yeager .
On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Yeager v. United States , ruling in favor of petitioner F. Scott Yeager, a former Enron Corp. executive who had been acquitted of several securities ...
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