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Posted
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:07 PM
| By
Emily Bazelon
The Minnesota Supreme Court just ruled
5-0 that Al Franken is the winner of the contested 2008 Minnesota
Senate race, by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast. Finally, right?
Minnesota has been down one senator for almost half a year. That's
already too long. The state shouldn't have to half sit out the summer's
big business on Capitol Hill: health care, the energy bill, and the
confirmation hearings for Judge Sotomayor.
But there's one avenue left for Norm Coleman, Franken's Republican
opponent, and that's a federal lawsuit. From a legal standpoint, such a
suit would be ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)