Court To Coleman: No, We're Not Changing Our Ruling Against You

[babylonsister]

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Court To Coleman: No, We're Not Changing Our Ruling Against You
By Eric Kleefeld - February 18, 2009, 10:36AM



Norm Coleman is off to a rough start this morning, with the Minnesota election court having just formally denied his request for them to reconsider their ruling last week to stop him from advocating for certain rejected absentee ballots.

This isn't a big surprise, but it has some interesting ramifications. The court handed down a ruling on Friday that Coleman didn't like, because it immediately cut off about a thousand ballots that he wanted to put in the count. He then immediately turned around and asked them to change their minds, arguing that other ballots like these are already in the count, and the court didn't do it.

The important part here is that Coleman is establishing a record of this court shooting him down on matters of law -- which he will be practically certain to appeal should the trial end with him still losing the race. And remember that the Coleman camp is already calling out the vote count as "fatally flawed," hinting that one contingency plan for after this trial could be to seek a do-over election.

[thereismore]

1. Time to heal, time to heal! nt

[opihimoimoi]

2. With Norm...there is no Healing....he is a serial Bully.....he demands HIS WAY

like a spoiled child....

[thereismore]

6. because the seat is HIS and he does not share or give. nt

[opihimoimoi]

7. His persistence borders on relying on miricles and/or long long odds.

He is being obstinate as the spoiled brat at the Dept store crying because his candy was denied to him...

[skorpo]

3. You can watch the contest at:

www.theuptake.org Right now they're in recess to look at something that Coleman's lawyers just introduced.

They also replay things when court is not in session. It's an excellent place to keep up with what's happening.

[Johonny]

4. At one point with all this money being handed out by congress

Does the Minnesota Governor wake up and say damn it I need my 2nd senator on the hill fighting for every federal dollar.

[KamaAina]

8. Doubtful. He's a repuke, and both his first and second Senators are Dems.

At least, so far, he hasn't joined the growing chorus of repuke governors who are actually talking about rejecting the stimulus money! :eyes:

[Winterblues]

5. They want to appeal this right up to the Extreme Court where they know they will prevail.

The Highly Partisan Extreme court will rule in a Partisan manner as it has in the past. They are pretty much guaranteed that if they can only get their case in front of them. Ginsberg is an expert in doing just that..

[Raine]

9. This is ridiculous

it's long passed time to seat Franken.

[Raine]

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