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Senate recount trial: Franken side will rest its case Wednesday

By Jay Weiner | 03/10/09

In a surprising but welcomed move, Al Franken's lawyer Marc Elias said today his side will rest its case Wednesday. This will shorten the trial and bring the U.S. Senate election contest to a head sooner than expected. More later.

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Submitted by Erich Russell on March 10, 2009 - 5:25pm.

Whatever its persuasive force in the ECC judgment, the Bell case has little heft in the prevention of a fillibuster.