Reply #2: The way it works is that the STATES take the lead, though.

[MADem]

It's the STATE that has to send the Senator to DC. Pawlenty is the one being the jerk. After the Senate inserted themselves into the Obama replacement mess, with mixed results, they're gun shy.

The citizens of Minnesota need to maybe demonstrate in front of Pawlenty's office, or something. Call him a partisan dickhead. An obstructor. A jerk who blocks the will of the people. A martinet. A dictator. You get the idea...

The court is hewing to a GOP agenda. They could stretch this to absurd lengths and turn around and rule, capriciously, that a new election is in order--that would make them just like the Bush v Gore crew--a buncha assholes.