Breaking News: MN Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Al Franken
Minnesota Public Radio is reporting that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in favor of Democrat Al Franken in the disputed 2008 Senate election case.
Below is a summary of the court’s findings:
1. Appellants (Norm Coleman) did not establish that, by requiring proof that statutory absentee voting standards were satisfied before counting a rejected absentee ballot, the trial court’s decision constituted a post-election change in standards that violates substantive due process. 2. Appellants did not prove that either the trial court or local election officials violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.
3. The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it excluded additional evidence.
4. Inspection of ballots under Minn. Stat. § 209.06 (2008) is available only on a showing that the requesting party cannot properly be prepared for trial without an inspection. Because appellants made no such showing here, the trial court did not err in denying inspection.
5. The trial court did not err when it included in the final election tally the election day returns of a precinct in which some ballots were lost before the manual recount.
Conclusion: For all of the foregoing reasons, we affirm the decision of the trial court that Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast, and is entitled under Minn. 32 Stat. § 204C.40 (2008) to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota.
Both campaigns will speak later today. No word on whether Governor Tim Pawlenty will sign the election certificate.
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11 Responses to “Breaking News: MN Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Al Franken”
No word on whether Governor Tim Pawlenty will sign the election certificate.
Why wouldn't he? The last of the criteria have been met, and despite whatever you may think of the election itself and all the shenanigans, it is now over. Time to move on and get over it.
Except of course for Minnesota. They have to live with this decision for some time to come.
Seems like the Democrats are getting all the breaks this year, I don't know how the Republicans are going to rebound, because they are so being out voted and out numbered.
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“Why wouldn't he?”
He may let Coleman appeal to the federal judiciary — some have openly speculated he may take it to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Whether the Supreme Court would hear the case is questionable.)
Franken can be obnoxious and at times highly offensive with his farther-left politics, but when he calms down he seems okay intellectually and otherwise, and if the Minneapolis libbies want him as their new celebrity Senator, that's what we're likely to see.
DLS – he flat out said he would not, and that if the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in Franken's favor, he would sign. He said that Sunday. It is over,
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Minnesota Public Radio is reporting that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in favor of Democrat Al Fraken in the disputed 2008 Senate….
Coleman has just conceded, no more appeals, no more foot-draggong.
It's now on to the U.S. Senate for Al Franken to make it 60
It is time to move on. The Rush Limbaugh of the Left has been elected Senator. We can just move to oust Franken in 2014, hopefully.
Are they really going to make this guy a senator?
Franken's radio show was a flop because few wanted to hear his boring anti-American drivel, but that didn't stop the DNC from putting this bozo on the ballot. And they were going to do the same for Chris Tingle Matthews until polls revealed widespread revulsion at the thought.
Then Team Obama and their MSM allies mocked mere “entertainer” Rush Limbaugh for having significant influence in the GOP. The DNC even ran TV ads to trash him… when he's never even thought about running for office, to the best of my knowledge.
So a failed entertainer's OK for Democratic Senator… but a successful conservative one isn't even allowed to have influence? -please
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ReaganiteRepublican: “Are they really going to make this guy a senator?” First of all it was the people who elected him (not the judges). Do you have a problem with democracy?
As far as Limbaugh…. he is the one who wishes that Obama (and the country) will fail.
Limbaugh also demands that elected Republican leaders apologize to him when they say something he doesn't like… And apologize they do… to a “mere entertainer”. Limbaugh cares most about his ratings so he can continue to receive mulit-hundred million dollar contracts.
However Franken actually has the guts to go out, run a campaign for office and get elected to help people.
So I may not be a Franken fan, but at least he's doing something positive to change the ills he sees in America.
Reaganite-
Rush masquerades as a mere entertainer-but in reality he is the power behind the throne— and likes it that way. Even former VP Cheney prefers Limbaugh's brand of Republicanism to Colin Powell's.
“It is over”
Yep. Done deal. Looks like you called it right, earlier:
“Time to move on and get over it.”
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“Are they really going to make this guy a senator?”
Yes. Note that he's next to nothing compared to Limbaugh, despite the incorrect statements on this thread to the contrary; Franken's radio show was little better than Mario Cuomo's (does anyone else remember that? [chuckle]).
It's mainly the Dems who would prefer a celebrity and now they have a celebrity.
And who finds sixty Dem votes (quality not an issue) being sweet, indeed? The giggly and worse kids…