google.com - 2/1/2009
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2 days ago ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) The success of Norm Coleman's lawsuit to reclaim his Senate seat could depend on how willing the trial judges are to find a precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling from another messy, political charged election battle: Bush v. Gore. Republican Coleman's ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
The Coleman team appears to be laying out
a continued strategy of casting doubt on the legitimacy
of the Minnesota election result by pointing to a fundamental underlying idea of this dispute: The margin of error is simply too big in a race this ...
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Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/29/2009
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Here's another funny moment earlier today from the
slow-motion comedy show that is the Minnesota Senate trial.
The Coleman team is continuing to call as witnesses some aggrieved voters to complain that their ballot was wrongly rejected. This ...
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Friendly Coleman Witness: They Cherry-Picked Me
fivethirtyeight.com - 2/4/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that approximately
4,800 absentee ballots considered by the Coleman campaign to
have been potentially wrongly rejected should be reviewed by the state. The Franken campaign, meanwhile, has its own list of ...
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Absentee Ballots Unlikely to Save Coleman
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In Senate trial, Coleman turns to Bush v. Gore (could end up back at US SC)
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... judges would have to find there was an unacceptably high level of error throughout the election and recount process. The judges are expected to issue rulings as early as this week that could give a better idea of which approach they'll favor. If Coleman loses his effort for a wide review and his lawsuit fails, his argument seems tailor-made for a federal court appeal. And that could ultimately give the Supreme Court a chance to finally revisit its Bush v. Gore decision. Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRKoh... Two other opinions from legal ...
'Can We Get a Do-Over? Or Help From the Supremes?': Week 2 Begins at the U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... The shameless WSJ whackos (Hi, John Fund!) will undoubtedly make whatever case they need in order to support their GOP buddies ambitions, democracy and Constitution-be-damned. But, as the ultimate decision to declare the seat "vacant" --- and thus, force a new special election --- would belong to a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, a better chance for Coleman may lie in the federal issues being raised, "over and over," by his legal team, as AP notes, based on the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause. ...
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MINNESOTA: The Minneapolis Star Tribune on yesterday’s activity in the Minnesota recount trial: “After he lost the unofficial lead in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Republican Norm Coleman called for an exhaustive review of rejected absentee ballots ...
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