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Analysis: Ruling sealed Coleman’s fate, scholars say

Posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 and is filed under Money. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

From its opening summary to its closing sentences, the Minnesota Supreme Court meticulously sealed Norm Coleman’s U.S. Senate chances Tuesday in a way that legal scholars agree left him little wiggle room. The 32-page decision brushed aside Coleman’s attempt to equate the U.S. Senate recount in Minnesota with the 2000 presidential election and draw legal parallels from the subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the historic case of Bush vs. Gore. In addition, legal scholars said, the state Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion did not hand Democrat Al Franken a victory based on procedural grounds but instead was a sweeping endorsement of a three-judge panel’s earlier ruling that was firmly…

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