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Scott Rafferty, a DC lawyer and elections expert, calls for Franken to be seated and shows that Republican claims that nobody has ever been seated in the Senate without a final official election certificate are, as the Car Talk guys would say, booOOoo-gus!
The Coleman camp is trying to use the discovery of three lost absentee ballots in Anoka County — ballots which had been submitted from overseas locations — as some sort of proof that the other three-million-odd ballots were ickily counted, in its pro-forma quest to either force a do-over or to simply keep Al Franken from taking the Senate seat that is now rightfully his.
Waiting for the Minnesota Supreme Court to reconvene with their verdict on whether Pawlenty and Ritchie should sign Franken’s election certificate; in the meantime, here’s an UpTake story on why most Minnesotans pay a bigger percentage of their income in taxes than do the Pohlads and the Daytons and the Taylors and others among the very rich in our fair state.
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Will that be tonight?
Don’t get your hopes up. I doubt the court will write new law to settle this and as PW said there’s no provision currently to allow this.
So even if we hear today, it will likely be “no”.
What’s Minn doing to election procedures & laws to try to prevent this from happening again?
Boxturtle (And has anybody figured out where Norm is getting the money to finance this yet?)
Quelle suprise, non?
It shouldn’t be. Payroll taxes are pretty regressive when they are (A) high and (B) count from the first dollar. Like, oh, say, OASDI and Medicare. That’s a combined 8.7% or so right off the top.
Then there are sales taxes. If you spend most of your income, then (depending on just where you are) that’s another 5-7% you’re paying. We’re somewhere around 15% now and haven’t hit dollar 1 in income taxes.
But if you belong to the investment class, your dividends are taxed at a lower rate than earned income. Your capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than earned income. Invest your money in tax-free bond vehicles, and the interest isn’t subject to taxes.
Your earned income above the FICA maximum isn’t subject to any payroll tax at all.
Gee, do you suppose this is why Warren Buffett said he will leave his heirs enough to do anything they want to do, but not enough to nothing?
To Boxturtle: Normie’s money is coming from the ‘thugs who want Franken kept out as long as possible. PW included a link to a donor analysis in one of the earlier posts. All the usual suspects for Normie…
Dar PW, is it possible that the term will expire before the winner is seated?
Could the MN Supremes rule as follows?
When the panel reviewing the recount rules, if candidate A is ahead, he can be provisionally seated.
That’s almost what Franken has asked for, but it would be one more step along the road to finality.