It’s not out of the question formNorm Coleman to choose to ask Alito to issue a stay to keep Al Franken’s election certificate from being signed. But as Hasen noted a few weeks ago, actually getting a stay is unlikely. And considering that Norm’s legal fees for this case alone are around $145,000 a week, the NRSC may figure their money is better spent on protecting vulnerable GOP senators in next year’s elections.

As speculation grows that Norm may actually formally file his appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court sometime this week, it might be instructive to see who’s been egging him on these past few months.

So I surf on over to The UpTake this afternoon — and this greets me at the front page: “COLEMAN DONOR DATABASE LEAKED…AGAIN! Wikileaks.org releases database after Coleman refuses to notify donors – Coleman reps claim database did not leak earlier, despite evidence to contrary” Fix your frickin’ website, Norm!

The Election Contest Court, apparently unwilling to let the Coleman campaign pay three-card ballot monte any more, gave the the two campaigns a list of nineteen categories of absentee ballots and told them to figure out, by 4:00 pm today, which ones are legal ballots and which ones aren’t. This will streamline, speed up and un-cherry-pick the reviewing process, which Coleman’s team had deliberately slowed down by trying to force thousands of cherry-picked absentee ballots into the system.

The 4,797-ballot universe of properly-rejected absentee ballots from Coleman strongholds that Norm Coleman wants counted has as of this morning shrunk to around 4,300.  But it might grow again, as the Coleman campaign is apparently back to its old three-card monte tricks of adding and withdrawing ballots.   Analysis of Hennepin County data hints that Coleman [...]

John McCain begrudges $4 million to study the DNA of grizzly bears in Montana. He’s been harping on that earmark for over a year now.