{"id":26650,"date":"2009-06-18T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T08:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/18\/franken-coleman-senatorial-rac\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T08:04:47","slug":"franken-coleman-senatorial-rac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/franken-coleman-senatorial-rac\/","title":{"rendered":"Franken-Coleman Senatorial Race Decision Expected &#8230;. Any Time Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to various sources which can not be named but that are being reported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsinminnesota.com\/2009\/jun17\/3338\/two-sources-supreme-court-ruling-u-s-senate-race-arrive-tomorrow\">Capitol Report<\/a>, the Minnesota Supreme Court is likely to make a decision today, Thursday, June 18th.  If the decision is anything other than to support (uphold) the decision of the three judge panel which previously ruled in Franken&#8217;s favor, several legal experts in the state and across the country are going to drop dead on the spot of shock and chagrin.<\/p>\n<p>It is not know if Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty is going to be ordered by the court to produce an election certificate, but it is generally thought that he will not issue one unless so ordered.  If the court does not order the Governor to carry out his legal duty, it may be required that Franken makes an argument to the court to do so.<\/p>\n<p>One thing people have not commented on yet to my knowledge is this:  In the event that Franken has to argue for the court to order Pawlenty to act on the court&#8217;s ruling, what sort of argument will Coleman make to the contrary?  That could be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, I understand the Coleman legal and recount team has offered its services to parties in Iran.  I wish I was joking about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to various sources which can not be named but that are being reported by the Capitol Report, the Minnesota Supreme Court is likely to make a decision today, Thursday, June 18th. If the decision is anything other than to support (uphold) the decision of the three judge panel which previously ruled in Franken&#8217;s favor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/franken-coleman-senatorial-rac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Franken-Coleman Senatorial Race Decision Expected &#8230;. Any Time Now<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[208,4537,33,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6VQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}