Minnesota Court Hears Senate Case
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
NYT
ST. PAUL — Lawyers for Norm Coleman, the Republican who is fighting a recount battle for a Senate seat with Al Franken, a Democrat, faced sharply skeptical questioning from justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court in a crucial hearing on this case this morning.
Mr. Coleman, who most recently held the seat, is challenging the rulings of a state recount board and a lower court, which declared Mr. Franken the winner of the race by hundreds of votes.
Associate Justice Christopher J. Dietzen said Mr. Coleman’s argument that thousands of absentee ballots had been wrongfully excluded had “no concrete evidence to back it up,” and said, “in my experience, I’ve never seen an offer of proof like this.”
The attorney for Mr. Franken, an author and former comedian, was also grilled about whether the differences in the acceptance of ballots did not show some of the evidence of deeper electoral problems that the Coleman team described.
(More here.)
NYT
ST. PAUL — Lawyers for Norm Coleman, the Republican who is fighting a recount battle for a Senate seat with Al Franken, a Democrat, faced sharply skeptical questioning from justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court in a crucial hearing on this case this morning.
Mr. Coleman, who most recently held the seat, is challenging the rulings of a state recount board and a lower court, which declared Mr. Franken the winner of the race by hundreds of votes.
Associate Justice Christopher J. Dietzen said Mr. Coleman’s argument that thousands of absentee ballots had been wrongfully excluded had “no concrete evidence to back it up,” and said, “in my experience, I’ve never seen an offer of proof like this.”
The attorney for Mr. Franken, an author and former comedian, was also grilled about whether the differences in the acceptance of ballots did not show some of the evidence of deeper electoral problems that the Coleman team described.
(More here.)
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