Coleman taking Senate case to higher court

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

The Minnesota Senate race is officially headed for the state Supreme Court after Norm Coleman’s campaign announced Monday that it was filing a notice of appeal.

The move will further prevent the seating of Al Franken (D), who at this point holds a lead of more than 300 votes in the race.

Coleman’s lawyers believe they will be able to argue that different standards were applied in different places and that a February ruling made by a three-judge panel applied a different standard to ballots than was used on Election Day.

...snip...

The document Coleman’s campaign is filing is largely perfunctory and won’t contain a lengthy legal brief detailing their case.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/coleman-taking-senate-case-to-higher-court-2009-04-20.html

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Wake me up when this gets appealed to the International Court in the Hague...

[imdjh]

1. Memories, can be beautiful and yet, what's too painful to remeh-ehm-ber

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Oh, that horrid woman ..........

Talk about bad losers. She's Norm Coleman's poster girl right about now, no doubt.

Does Norm know, though, what happened to Ellen's court fight?

Jesus, she's ugly ........................

[DebbieCDC]

20. OMG old Sourgrapes

Jeebus, is she still alive????

[Owl]

30. Who is that woman?

[AndyA]

2. He's just denying Dems of another seat.

Sore loser. Shows what Coleman thinks of his constituents in Minnesota. They don't need full representation, because they likely haven't had it under him anyway.

What a huge piece of crap Coleman is. :puke:

[KansDem]

3. Don't stop with the US Supreme Court, or the International Court at the Hague, Normie...

Take it all the way to the Supreme Leader of the Universe!



C'mon, Normie, you know you want to...!!!

[mascarax]

13. Too funny!

Of course, he'd want them to give him some freebies too (free suits, rent-free pod, etc.).

[Junkdrawer]

31. Plan 10 from Frostbite Falls...

This high budget Feature Presentation brought to you by the Keep Franken from the Senate PAC...

[jb5150]

4. What a poor sport...

"Screw you guys, I'm going home"

[Newrulz2008]

5. Coleman's Just a Puppet

The fact of the matter is that Norm Coleman is nothing more than a puppet for the right-wing. Coleman knows he lost, the party knows he lost. They see this as just another way slow down the efforts of the Democrats. The republican party has no solutions and doesn't give a rat's ass about the well being of the American people.

[kenfrequed]

6. Gods what a tool

There is nothing resembling consistence in his arguments.

[formercia]

7. I can't wait until Al Franken is seated.

CSPAN will have higher ratings than the late-night comedy shows.

[bemildred]

8. That's what I like about America.

Anybody can sue anybody about anything anytime as long as they have plenty of money to spend.

[GentryDixon]

10. The question being where is he getting his money.

[jaysunb]

11. Well...that eliminates both of us....

:rofl: :hi:

[bemildred]

12. Yah.

:hi:

[DLnyc]

14. A dollar a day makes Normie go away

I signed up to give a dollar a day to PCCC, every day until jerkface goes away. Now every time I see another episode of his soap opera announced, I just think about more dollars raised for progressive candidates. I find this beneficial to my blood pressure. Anyone can play . . . here's the link:

https://services.myngp.com/NGPOnlineServices/contribution.aspx?X=Ded7FwPHDshrGtqFOE7vW9VcwgIMiaBGhXdSUiuRDlw%3d

[IndianaGreen]

15. What will come first, Coleman's appeal to SCOTUS or his indictment for corruption?

What will come first, Coleman's appeal to SCOTUS or his indictment for corruption?

Exec says Coleman donor ordered $100K payments
Sworn statement backs allegation that Kazeminy directed fees to an insurance firm to benefit the Colemans.

By PAUL McENROE and TONY KENNEDY, Star Tribune staff writers

Last update: March 26, 2009 - 11:51 PM

The former finance chief of a Texas company controlled by Nasser Kazeminy, a close friend of former Sen. Norm Coleman, said in a deposition last week that Kazeminy ordered $100,000 in fees be paid to a Minneapolis insurance agency where Coleman's wife was employed.

B.J. Thomas, who was chief financial officer of Deep Marine Technology Inc., said that $75,000 of that sum was paid to Hays Companies even though he saw no evidence of Deep Marine receiving any consulting services from Hays.

Thomas' deposition, taken under oath on March 19 and obtained by the Star Tribune, is the first corroboration from an official at Deep Marine of allegations made by company founder Paul McKim in a lawsuit filed last year against the company.

In the two weeks before the November U.S. Senate election, two lawsuits were filed against Deep Marine -- one by McKim and one by a group of minority shareholders. In them, Kazeminy was accused of funneling payments to Hays to benefit the Colemans, as well as other alleged financial wrongdoing.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/41952432.html

[tomm2thumbs]

16. Yipeee - the GOP will continue to irk the moderate voices in Minnesota and taint Pawlenty

Pawlenty has officially gotten his name wiped out of contention as result of this. He's too close to it to not be burned up in this. LOVE IT!

[rpannier]

22. I wonder what Coleman would do if Pawlenty signed off of the document

making Franken the next US Sennator

[jberryhill]

26. Is Coleman's Taint Large Enough For Pawlenty?

Or is Pawlenty likely to have his taint enlarged by the taint of others?

[dysfunctional press]

33. coleman's taint was not really an image i needed to encounter this morning....

normie's hairy shit-stained taint is probably one of the LAST mental images that i'd want to eat breakfast to.

[wroberts189]

17. Al will be seated and the Coleman gambit will backfire. nt

[Rwalsh]

18. Go away already, Coleman. n/t

[alfredo]

19. What will come first, the case being heard, or him being indicted for corruption.

[rpannier]

21. I understand that he's already planning an apeal to the Court in the Grand Cayman Islands

If that doesn't work he's going to appeal to the Court that oversaw the Salem Witch Trials and the Inquisition.

[1monster]

23. Hear ye! Hear ye! The Court of Oyer and Terminer is now in Session.

The Honorable Officers of the Court

Chief Judge William Stoughton;

Associate Judges Jonathan Corwin, Salem; Thomas Danforth, Boston; Bartholomew Gedney, Salem; John Hathorne, Salem; John Richards, Boston; Nathaniel Saltonstall, Haverhill; Peter Sargent, Boston; Samuel Sewell, Salem; Stephen Sewall, Clerk of the Court; Wait Winthrop, Boston;

Attorney-General for the Court of Oyer and Terminer Thomas Newton, (May 31, 1692 � July 26, 1692); Anthony Checkley, (July 27th, replaced Thomas Newton);

Sheriff of the County of Essex George Corwin,

Now presiding.

And May God Have Mercy on Your Soul!

[PFunk]

24. Well, Norm just killed what ever chance of winning any political office in MN now.

Plus he has just became a millstone around MN repugs necks. One that may cost them a governor.

[GopherGal]

25. Norm on Nov 5

http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/watch/2234491-coleman-too-much-at-stake-for-recount">Video: Coleman On Nov 5

We're waiting...

[Mister Ed]

36. And while we're waiting...

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[DiverDave]

27. Repuke mantra "States Rights, STATES RIGHTS!!"

Uh, wait, except when we disagree with the states courts...

God, the hypocrisy is stunning.

[and-justice-for-all]

28. Build a fire and toss your cash in Norm...

you'll get the same effect...dumbass.

[radfringe]

29. I'm betting he takes it all the way to

the Inter-Galactic Confederation of Planets High Tribunal

[maxrandb]

32. Norm at the Court

http://thm-a01.yimg.com/image/5d520cd421568f8a

[struggle4progress]

34. Franken asks high court to act quickly

Minnesota's need for its second senator justifies prompt hearing, Franken says
By KEVIN DUCHSCHERE, Star Tribune
Last update: April 21, 2009 - 12:24 PM

... A day after Republican Coleman appealed last week's trial decision awarding the U.S. Senate election to Franken, lawyers for the DFLer this morning filed a motion proposing that the Supreme Court hear oral arguments as soon as two weeks from now.

"Because of the important public policy concern of ensuring that the interests of the citizens of Minnesota are properly represented in Congress, this appeal should be expedited," Franken lawyer David Lillehaug says in the motion.

Franken is asking that Coleman deliver the trial transcript to the high court no later than Wednesday and that Coleman provide his brief in the case by Monday.

Franken's opposition brief would be ready by May 2, Lillehaug says, clearing the way for Coleman's reply brief by May 4 and oral arguments "very shortly after the reply brief is submitted" ... http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/43345087.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUncacyi8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUs


Franken asks state Supreme Court to expedite appeal
By MinnPost staff | Published Tue, Apr 21 2009 11:19 am

... Franken’s lawyers today sought a three-prong approach to speeding up proceedings. They asked the high court to expedite the preparation and filing of the trial record, the briefing schedule and its decision on a date for oral arguments ... http://www.minnpost.com/politicalagenda/2009/04/21/8226/franken_asks_state_supreme_court_to_expedite_appeal

[Rwalsh]

35. If only Kerry had fought this hard,

the past 4 years would have been so much better.

I've often wondered why didn't Kerry take his legitimate case as far as Coleman has taken his.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

37. I'm sick of Norm and his Chiclet teeth

just go away, you has-been!

[riverdeep]

38. He's being funded by the right wing, and he signed a deal with the devil.

The deal made was this: you deny the Democrats the Senator they need to get things done and cause Franken to push his donations to the limit, and we'll take of you. He already knows his public career is over, he's going to go a nice cushy job in a think tank or some lobbyist or whatever. It's going on six months now, maybe another six before this is all settled.