As expected, the three-judge panel presiding over Norm Coleman’s recount challenge (or "contest") has summarily bounced the silly motion to move all the ballots to St. Paul so Norm’s "Ballot Inspectors" can look over them. (Norm, if you haven’t done your own discovery yet, you’re more hopeless than I thought.) They haven’t yet zapped his summary judgment, but that will likely happen by Monday morning.
This means that the trial over Norm’s contest will start as planned next Monday. The schedule is as follows: Monday, Jan. 26- 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m.; from Jan. 27 until the end, the trial will be in session from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m. every weekday.
In the meantime, it looks like the Coleman camp got a little creative with the evidence they were submitting (h/t Minnesota Progressive Project):
At a pre-trial hearing in the Minnesota election lawsuit just now, Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton made a striking accusation: That the Coleman campaign has been doctoring evidence.
As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected absentee ballot envelope, one of which he said was the unaltered original, and the other taken from Coleman’s legal filings in his attempts to get more of the rejected ballots opened. The Coleman copy was missing the section in which a local election official explained why it was rejected.
"We would not be able to stipulate to the authenticity of a document where the key portion has been cut out," Hamilton complained.
No kidding. This is ridiculous.



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I know it’s a cliche but Na Na Na Na…
Thanks PW. digg is open.
Seconded.
Coleman is a republican….. not surprised…. they lie, cheat and try to steal you blink….. scam artists everyone…
preview is your friend….. blind…. gee
Confused….. this was a post earlier today ….. Oh well
So, I guess the court denied Franken’s motion for summary judgement? Is that usual in Minnesota?
And just how much is this going to cost in court time and dollars to Normie? I really don’t give a rat’s ass about how much it costs Normie, actually the more the better. But tying up a courtroom and three judges at least delays justice to a bunch of civil and criminal plaintiffs. And as the old boy said, justice delayed is justice denied.
awwwww ((((Katymine))))
Coleman and his ilk do that to all of us.
It’s been up at the Silo since last night but just got cross posted to Front Page FDL. (I think they do that sometimes just to confuse us)
it’s really irresponsible now, franken is the senator and we need his vote, I wish the senate would simply seat him as an honorary and register his votes in lieu of pending results
I wouldn’t even mind if they seated both and registered both votes pending the final result
Since Normie is going to lose, he will not only pay his own expenses but will have to cover court costs and pay all of Franken’s expenses as well. Denial of summary judgments is kind of pro forma in most courts unless the case is so patently ridiculous that it is obscene. Coleman has presented his “evidence” and the Court will do him the courtesy at least of looking at it before they tell him to get lost.
Seems Normie has already de facto conceded. He just announced that he has taken a new job as a lobbyist for some group. Niiiice. I would offer that to the Court as evidence of a concession!
pardon, the powers that be surely are showing some favoritism. Oh, the horror! heh. Seriously, they could print things upside down and backwards in reverse order & I’d vote FDL the best in the bidness.
But I rarely go into the other areas unless they are front paged. I commented at 10am today……
Anyway I now have at least 10 different types of ginger….. the capsules, tea, chocolate covered ginger, candied ginger, ginger animal crackers and fresh ginger…. it was a good thing because I was eating ginger all the way home from the store….
It is important not to let KKKarl and his neo-con thugs steal another election. But I want to know what happened to Normie’s BFF and landlord Jeff Larson. What about Sarah Palin’s clothes that Jeff bought her? Could they really be stuffed into trash bags. That is so wrong.
totally agreed. i’m really sick of this nonsense from coleman. he has no bidness fouling up Senate business from his present vantage point. that honour is reserved for the likes of McConnell, on the floor of the chamber. only THERE can a person so inclined make a total and complete fool of himself to full advantage.
*hands shoves to Mitch*
The problem as far as I know is that the SOS will not certify the election until the legal issues resolved and the Gov is a repug and will not appoint him…… anyone with other info please fill it in….
The current repubble definition of “donate” is “toss” or, if you will, dump.
oops “shoves” was supposed to be shovel but, what the hey, it works either way…
I can just imagine the condition of those clothes…
Natural fibers (cotton, wool, linen) absorb odors. The inside of plastic bags really stink from the chemicals. Add that to the body odors (I highly doubt the clothes were cleaned after they were worn) and that they have now been sitting for months in those bags. Phew!
Plus, really expensive clothing like that is usually custom fitted so the only people they really fit now are the Palins. What they should do is have an auction for the 22%ers who think she is wonderful and get the money back that way.
I can hardly wait to see who buys Dude’s silk boxer shorts. EEEEWWWW!
I hope they send them to our town.
Huge tax write-off if they donate them all to Goodwill, where people seeking jobs are looking through racks of tired-looking sweaters and suits.
After the heat’s off, betcha lesser photographed faves reemerge in AK.
It’s the republican way.. She can always say she bought it.
Loky,
That’s usual in most jurisdictions — summary judgement is only granted if the case is complete waste of the Court’s time.
This one appears to qualify on that count.
This is bull s#!t
there is an easy way to settle the question of falsified evidence
the ORIGINAL still exists folks
we’ve got norm coleman’s copy, filed in a court filing, and received under the assuption that norm coleman was entering ACCURATE EVIDENCE, under penalty of law
so let’s look at the original envelope
ain’t NO EXCUSE for filing falsified evidence
that’s a DISBARABLE OFFENSE, as well as a reason to issue a DIRECTED VERDICT fovoring the NON-OFFENDING PARTY
if norm coleman filed FALSE EVIDENCE, GAME OVER
it’s not hard to check on this
so what’s the holdup ???