Senate recount trial: Franken legal win streak continues

[Wretched Excess]

not looking good for the home team.  and I just realized that franken has something working strongly in his favor in his efforts to become a congressional democrat;  he is a tax cheat.  we already know that.

Senate recount trial: Franken legal win streak continues

Al Franken’s legal team scored another victory Wednesday night, and it cut to the heart of Norm Coleman’s case in the ongoing election contest.

The three-judge panel of Elizabeth Hayden, Kurt Marben and Denise Reilly rejected Norm Coleman’s efforts to examine a St. Cloud State economist and conservative blogger King Banaian. The order is here. (PDF)

That might seem like a tiny decision, but it’s the way the judges described it that’s significant.

Coleman’s side wanted Banian to testify about the alleged inconsistencies among the state’s counties in wrongly rejecting absentee ballots. Some counties had many rejections in some categories, such as ballot witnesses who weren’t registered, and other counties and cities had few or none.

The Coleman lawyers have made a big deal of this. They have said this raises “equal protection” issues and is unfair.

The Franken lawyers said in court last week that allowing Banaian to testify was irrelevant and would deteriorate into a confusing battle of experts.

Wednesday night, the judges agreed. They denied Coleman’s request to put Banian on the stand.

But, far more importantly, they reiterated what they’ve been saying and writing recently. It’s something that has perturbed Coleman’s lawyers, especially lead spokesman Ben Ginsberg, who criticized the judges firmly Wednesday.

The judges wrote:  “The Court will be reviewing all ballots presented according to the uniform standard contained [in Minnesota law]. It is irrelevant whether there were irregularities between the counties in applying [Minnesota law] prior to this election contest.”

Right now, so-called irregularities between the counties is, as Coleman lawyer Joe Friedberg said this week, “at the heart” of Coleman’s case.


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[thundley4]

The Dims have their majority and with the traitorous 3 on their side, one more won't hurt much.  Let Franken in and let the buffoonery begin.

[Chris_]

The Dims have their majority and with the traitorous 3 on their side, one more won't hurt much.  Let Franken in and let the buffoonery continue.

Fixt.   

[Wretched Excess]

The Dims have their majority and with the traitorous 3 on their side, one more won't hurt much.  Let Franken in and let the buffoonery begin.

true.  the "magic number" isn't 60, anyway.  aside from specter, snowe, and collins, saunders, the socialist, and lieberman, the independent, will caucus with the dems on just about every issue.