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It is absurd for Republicans to argue that Chief Justice Roberts is a judge who rules like an umpire, calling balls and strikes but not making law.
Tell that to Lilly Leadbetter. Congress passed a law to prevent companies from discriminating against women by paying them less than men for doing the same job. So Leadbetter wins an antidiscrimination case where even the company admitted that they had discriminted.
But Roberts - rich, white male, Republican, who always rules for...
Great reporting.
I certainly agree that the Supreme Court will rule for Franken. And probably on narrow grounds such as lack of evidence to prove that the outcome of election would change.
But the Supreme Court should do two other things in their ruling. One - order that Franken receive the Certificate of Election so he can be seated.
Two - recommend that the legislature change the requirement that a witness be a registered voter in Minnesota. In fact there is no...
Is this request in addition to the money that Coleman owes Franken because of the penalty the Court assessed after the debacle of the Coleman witness in the duplicate ballots testimony? Did Franken get that money yet?
Noone can claim that different STANDARDS were used in different counties. ALL counties were trained and instructed on the exact same Minnesota state election law standards.
Some counties APPLIED the standard in a slightly different way, but this happens in every election where human beings are involved. For example, there is a state standard that a witness must be a registered voter in Minnesota. That is the STATE standard. Most counties assumed if the witness had a Minnesota...
All the legal votes have ALREADY been counted. The rejected ballots have now been rejected at least twice and some three or four times.
1. They were rejected as invalid on election day.
2. They were rejected as invalid when sorted and inspected during manual recount.
3. They were rejected after 7 weeks of testimony by the 3 judge court.
Three strikes and you're OUT!
Most of these ballots were rejected either because the voter had already voted in person or...
When the trial started in February, the judges obtained parking permits through the end of March. Have they applied for renewal of the parking permits for April, May?
Isn't there any way to get a clue as to what they are doing and how much longer before we hear something, anything?
Any clue as to what the court is doing? Reviewing ballot information to prepare a list of ballots to be counted? Working on rulings?
Are we hours, days, or weeks from a decision?
Also to be ruled on are the 6 remaining categories NOT ruled on by Court in the Friday 13th ruling. And issues that came up at trial like whether changing apartments in same building required reregistration. OK How about in same precinct or same nursing home? When has an address changed so much you must reregister?
If court rules that voter did NOT need to fill out an absentee ballot application - Category 9 of Friday 13th ruling - then Coleman might get in a lot more than 6...
Some bloggers say that Coleman may be liable for sizable fines. Apparently failure to secure credit card information is illegal. He not only failed to secure, he actually made it easily accessible.
Really a rookie mistake. Nobody tries to handle their own credit card accounts - this is ALWAYS done by third party, commercial accounts that know what they are doing.
Dumb.
Truly wonderful summary. I don't know if it was exactly a "cotest" but Louisana took almost a full year to decide that Mary Landrieu was the winner in the Senate race. Big difference though, she was seated provisonally while the fight went on - 2002. In 2008 she was reelected by a large margin. Yes, she is a Democrat.