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The Minnesota Supreme Court today decided that Franken, a Democrat, won the highest number of votes in last year’s U.S. Senate race and deserves a signed election certificate.
The court said that Republican Norm Coleman didn’t prove that a lower court made mistakes requiring a rehearing of the case. Coleman had asked the court to order thousands of rejected absentee ballots counted. He had hoped the counting would allow him to overcome Franken’s 312-vote lead.
The court’s decision brings to an end the seven-month state fight over the Minnesota Senate race. Franken has had a lead since January and a trial court decided in April that he won the highest number of legally cast votes.
But Coleman has fought that determination, first in front of a three-judge panel and then in front of the state Surpeme Court. He had left open the possibility that he would wage a federal court fight for the lead either by appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court or by encouraging supporters to file a suit in federal court.
Neither of those would necessarily keep Franken from being seated.
Overdue!
Reading this kind of DU crap explains why the current nastiest name you can call the most obnoxious, deceitful and despicable person you might ever run into, is “Republican”.
I think #5 makes an excellent point. Both Gore and Franken strove to keep absentee ballots uncounted. I wish I knew why those ballots were rejected. I hope it’s not that Democrats fear absentee ballots because so many of them are from overseas military people who tend to be conservative. That would be dirty politics, and we here at DU know that only those mean-spirited, evil Republicans ever engage in that. I don’t know that the Democrats didn’t allow people who are putting their lives at risk for our country to vote, but I know they tried it in 2000 then cried foul when the ploy failed. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that’s what happened here, the only difference being the ploy worked this time.
Yeah, Ahminedjad won a landslide, too.
The postal union is Democrat, isn’t it….
This is very important. It gives the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate. They can bust a filibuster, if united.
#12 & #13
Arkansas and yes it was the heat that caused us to elect Clinton and Huckabee.
I have listened to him on Air America though I totally disagree with him at least he is one liberal who can logically argue his point with out resorting to the usual name calling of racist or homophobe, Hitler or the usual religious nut.
I dont think he won but the rule of law says he is the winner so now he is the senator.
About time.
God bless America, this is great news.
I am very happy for Senator Franken…. Did you hear that? Senator Franken.
It kind of rolls off your tongue doesn’t it.
Very happy for Al Franken… now let’s get to work people.
Now that the Democrats have their 60, watch the wolves among them, show their true colors and start holding out their votes to get their pieces of pork…
#30. morepork – miniature owl, native to New Zealand.
60 votes now they can ram all of the chosen one’s bullshit up our asses…
Bend over. No filibuster.
He will not last. He will get caught in a “69″ with Craig the republican from Idaho.
AWESOME !!
We need to bill Coleman and the GOP for wasting tax dollars and keeping government from doing real work.
I recommend house arrest for Coleman and seizing GOP bank accounts until the tax payers are compensated.
Yay, because we’ve had such great luck electing 3rd rate actors in the past …
@BryanP
Like Ronald Reagan?
#32 – ApexMI
It’s called Democracy. The majority of Americans have chosen a way of life for the country, and the minority doesn’t get to make the rules.
If you don’t like it, you are always welcome to go live somewhere else. America, love it or leave it.
#38, Actually it’s called a Republic, not a Democracy. Go back and re-take fifth grade civics.
“It kind of rolls off your tongue doesn’t it.” S**t rolls off the tongue to. You know as in politician.