Norm Coleman's Last Gasp: Begs Court To Reconsider Roadblock To His Election Theft

[jefferson_dem]

Coleman to judges: Reconsider your ruling

Coleman attorneys want Minnesota judges to reconsider a recent ruling.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — Republican Norm Coleman's attorneys Monday sent a letter to the state supreme court asking the judges to reconsider a game-changing ruling from that put significant limits on the types of rejected absentee ballots they want examined.

The judges on Friday outlined about a dozen categories of ballots that should not be counted because they felt they were ballots that were not legally cast according to Minnesota law. Those included ballots in which signatures didn't match, those submitted by non-registered voters or those inside a return envelope not signed by the voter.

But Coleman, who is seeking to add more rejected ballots to the recount of his November 4 race with Democrat Al Franken for a U.S. Senate seat, argued that not including all of about 4,800 ballots he wants re-examined was a matter of equal protection.

In their letter sent to the court Monday, Coleman's team is arguing that "likely thousands" of the ballots that had been sifted through during the recount process could have fallen under these now-taboo categories.

"Without a remedy, we will be faced with a widespread equal protection problem that would not only violate the law, but create Constitutional legal issues that would only delay this process further," Coleman attorney Ben Ginsberg said.

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[grantcart]

1. These quys trash equal protection and use it only to try and overturn elections

Ok time for some contempt of court citations.

[rug]

2. He's claiming equal protection to set up an appeal to the wonderful folks who brought us Bush.

[jefferson_dem]

4. The uber-hypocrites find glorious refuge in equal protection and trample on so-called states rights

when it suits their selfish purposes.

[geckosfeet]

3. In other words - "please sanction our unconstitutional delay of seating a

duly elected senator for political purposes. Thank you."

[opihimoimoi]

5. His behavior since Nov 4th sucks..He is damaged goods...trying his best to steal the election

from Franken

Fuck him...I hope he crashes and burns....he gives a bad name to the GOP to the point of becoming a JOKE

[spanone]

6. get a job, norm.

[vaberella]

7. So Franken is still not seated?! What the hell is going on?

Can you post some links as to what is going on? A court case could go on with Franken put in place, can't they? What is the DCCC doing about this? Or just in general the other Dems doing.

[dflprincess]

9. It's a matter of Minnesota law

an election certificate, even a conditional one, cannot be issued while there are challenges to the election.

On the bright side, I heard somewhere that Normie won't be able to appeal anything beyond the State Supreme Court, I hope that's true.

[mvd]

8. It is possible for Reid to seat Franken before this is resolved?

Because now it looks like Normie is just dragging things along.

[bermudat]

10. That would require a backbone.

[PBS Poll-435]

11. No he can't. It would be hypocritical

Reid wouldn't seat Burris without a signed election certificate.

If he did that for Franken, it would look very bad.