Spokesman says Coleman will appeal ruling, probably next week

Source: Star Trib

Norm Coleman will appeal the court decision awarding the U.S. Senate election to Al Franken, Coleman's chief legal spokesman said today.

Ben Ginsberg said the appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court probably will be filed next week, to give the Coleman campaign's lawyers a chance to fully digest the 68-page opinion that the three-judge panel handed down late Monday afternoon.

Coleman has 10 days to file the appeal.

The judges dismissed Coleman's argument that systemic errors in the election process invalidated Franken's razor-thin lead and required the counting of some 4,400 additional absentee ballots that had been rejected.

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Reid, the Dem fearless leader strikes again.

or the massive uncounted florida votes or the fact that an unelected and unqualified asshole was being thrust into an office he never should have held

"You know, you can always depend on us Republicon Homelanders to shit on truth, justice, honor, dignity, and all that shit -- as the record shows, we republicons are consistent on that"

- Coleman spokepropagandist (R)

I hate him so much. It just figures that he'd be Coleman's lawyer here.

Filthy little pig, Ginsburg....................

I fully expect him to wait until the 10th day, and then file his appeal during the last minutes of business... just to be a douche.

He has to know at this point that he can't win, all he can do now is stall as long as possible.

In the Busby/Bilbray CA-50 election.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3417

GOP claims that the U.S. House of Representatives, not the state courts or voters, have the power to determine the outcome of elections of members of Congress. In California’s 50th Congressional district in San Diego County, Republican candidate Brian Bilbray was announced to be the winner of the June 6 special election, flown to Washington and sworn in before all the votes were counted or the election certified.




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Busby had even filed an appeal of the count, but the GOP went ahead and swore in Bilbray. Dems were silent.

just as they were in 2000 (with the exception of the CBC), and just as they are today.

(As Harry Reid cowers under the covers in his pink tutu, afraid the republicans may say bad things about him if he sends them a mildly worded query about possibly seating Senator Franken)

That's the silver lining on this piece-of-shit legal case.

What a crybaby fucking asshole! :thumbsdown:

Coleman's new career will be with faux as they trot him out periodically as a victim of the
evil Democrats and their sinister ways. These folks are so predictable, just wait and see.

STFGU.... man what a pathetic last ditch effort at, uh, NOTHING. SO glad he is putting his country first and bowing our gracefully... oh wait, my mistake, I thought he had some balls or dignity.

is the SANITY????????? ugh!

Can't he just fucking give up already!!!...Never in political history, actually make that HUMAN history, has there been a more glowing example of what a sore loser is...12 yr. olds in the little league world series show more grace & class than that SOB from Minnesota...

I need an orange bang-head


:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

totally fraudulent. He's lying, they're lying... ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS STALL. They'll have plenty of time to prepare for the MN S.C. after filing the necessary SINGLE PAGE FORM.

They'll of course drop it...


yeah....riiiiight.....


Is this deliberate stonewalling and abuse of the courts yet?

At least he seems happy to hold him at bay as long as possible. I'm sure the DINO Blue Dogs don't like him. A true liberal populalist like Franken riding in on a high profile wave of media attention. He might disrupt their plans, along with their Republican cohorts, to make sure the insurance companies continue to have control of Americans medical needs, and other such issues. Franken would probably be a requested guest on news networks, and I'm sure would put to shame the weasels in his own party.

And he doesn't seem to give a rats ass nor does Harry Reid.

Doesn't this bother the citizens of MN?

Minnesota's election law doesn't allow for provisional seating of a certified winner. The winner of an election has to wait until every bad faith, sore loser legal option open to the loser has been exhausted. Coleman's still got a few arrows in his quiver, and he'll shoot them all.

I expect he'll move the panel for reconsideration of its unanimous opinion and order. He'll wait until the 10th day to file his appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court. He'll demand that the Supreme Court not take up the matter until his motion for reconsideration has been ruled on, and an order signed. He'll then ask for a full briefing schedule featuring an opening brief, response and reply. When the Supreme Court rules, he'll again move for reconsideration, and Pawlenty will oblige the process (though not the people of the State of Minnesota) by holding off until a ruling on Coleman's motion for resconsideration before the Supreme Court is ruled on, an order signed, and a final judgment issued.

At that point, Coleman might take up a federal appeal, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Pawlenty held off waiting for that process to be resolved. Optimists are saying this will all be over by May or June. I'm asking what year?

And there's nothing that Franken can do about it. Reid might be inclined to ask the Senate to seat Franken according to its rules, but that would call down a political firestorm of staggering pomposity. Every Republican in the Senate, aided and abetted by Fox News in wall-to-wall poutrage, would angrily denounce an "end run around the Constitution" and invoke nuclearity should the prospect arise that Franken might be seated "prematurely" before every last jot and tittle of the law has been gone through.

Can you imagine the stink that would be raised if it was Coleman or some other repub being denied his seat by some chicken shit action by a Democrat? Somehow I don't think they'd be worried about pissing off Democrats.

Harry Reid is more scared of making Glenn Beck cry than he is of the progressives and liberals who put him where he is today. And no, clearly Republicans don't give a tin shit about Democrats or Democratic programs. Which could help explain their sub-freezing approval ratings.

The count is the count. He lost by a few hundred votes. This endless litigation is transparent.

Exactly! It's clear his motivation is not the fair representation of MN. Can't that be used somehow?

"doing the same thing and expecting a different result"

Check.

YOU LOST ASSHOLE!

That is all.