ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Norm Coleman must pay Democrat Al Franken $94,783 to cover court costs for his appeal of Minnesota Senate election ...
StarTribune.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Norm Coleman today proposed a more leisurely schedule for his election appeal than Al Franken wants, asking that oral arguments in the case be held no...
AP | BRIAN BAKST | Posted 05.25.2011
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Norm Coleman's attorney says an appeal of his Minnesota Senate election trial loss probably won't come until next w...
MyDD | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, I took a look at the political leanings of the five Minnesota Supreme Court Justices who will decide Republican Norm Coleman's likely appea...
Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
Tuesday's court decision favoring Al Franken in the disputed Minnesota Senate race also serves as a boon to the ongoing fight over the Employee Free Choice Act.
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
Texas Sen. John Cornyn is threatening "World War III" if Democrats try to seat Al Franken in the Senate before Norm Coleman can pursue his case throug...
Hotline | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Friedberg, attorney for former Sen. Norm Coleman's recount effort, seemed to suggest in a MN radio interview yesterday that Democrat Al Franken wi...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
A state court could rule any day now on Norm Coleman's challenge to Al Franken's 225-vote lead in Minnesota, but the race may be far from over no matt...
Star Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
In the end, the pool turned out to be pretty shallow. Republican Norm Coleman had hoped an inspection of hundreds of secrecy envelopes holding reject...
Minneapolis Star-Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
Norm Coleman's lawyers rested their case in the U.S. Senate recount trial this afternoon, clearing the way for Al Franken's attorneys to begin their c...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
The talk from the Coleman campaign about how the Minnesota election results are unreliable, and that a do-over election could be an option, has now go...
The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Al Franken gave his first national media interview since November to Air America's Mark Green Friday. Franken acknowledges the difficulties of his lo...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
The Republican National Committee has transferred $250,000 to the Minnesota GOP to help pay legal fees in Norm Coleman's ongoing recount battle agains...
Politico | Josh Kraushaar Josh Kraushaar | Posted 05.25.2011
Three months after Election Day, the Minnesota showdown between Al Franken and Norm Coleman continues, and the ever-changing storyline has now settled...
Smart Politics | Posted 05.25.2011
While Al Franken remains fairly elusive, Norm Coleman is keeping a high profile these days as his court challenge of the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount...
Twin Cities | Posted 05.25.2011
Perry Mason, meet Rachel Smith. Smith, the top elections official in Anoka County, dropped a minor bombshell Thursday in the courtroom where a lawsui...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
Norm Coleman has a strong interest in convincing voters that he hasn't given up hope of returning for a second Senate term. But as the fight over Minn...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The Minnesota election court ruled on Tuesday that nearly 4,800 rejected absentee ballots should be reexamined in the process of determining the winne...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
The Coleman team appears to be laying out a continued strategy of casting doubt on the legitimacy of the Minnesota election result by pointing to a fu...
The Uptake | Posted 05.25.2011
The UpTake, which has been covering the recount in Minnesota live for nearly two months now, will of course cover Norm Coleman's press conference live at 3pm CT.
AP | BRIAN BAKST | Posted 05.25.2011
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republi...
Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Compared to Burris, Mr. Franken's declared victory in the seemingly endless Minnesota senate battle has generated some cheering, for sure, but surprisingly little laughing or hilarity. And what a shame that is.
FiveThirtyEight | Posted 05.25.2011
Who was this ballot cast for? Norm Coleman, right? No, this is not a trick question. Unless your name is John Lott, Jr., Ph.D. and you just publishe...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: The intense scrutiny of "voter intent" resumed this morning by a five-member board charged with directing Minn...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
Here is an astoundingly funny blooper from today's Minnesota state canvass board meeting: The Coleman campaign tried out an interesting maneuver on ba...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011