"No order to sign"
All the blogs are repeating this.
The Court was never going to explicitly "order" the guv to sign a piece of paper he's now supposed to sign. They explicitly concluded that Franken is entitled under the statute to recieve the certificate. That's more than enough.
If Pawlenty doesn't sign, he's flouting the MN supreme court decision and Franken can sue HIM.
Posted by euzoius at June 30, 2009 11:48 AMsoon we will see the revelation that an obscure Senate rule requires 61 votes for a majority and 90 votes to for cloture. This ain't over.
Posted by T2 at June 30, 2009 12:23 PMFox cable news: Franken(R) victorious!
Posted by TIKI AL at June 30, 2009 12:25 PMColeman's having a press conference at 3:00 Central time. He may concede or he may promise to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, then the U.N., then the United Federation of Planets. If he's going on, we have to wait for 10 days, during which time he can ask the Minnesota Supreme Court to reconsider their unanimous decision. In that event, the governor couldn't sign an election certificate until July 10th. If then Pawlenty didn't sign, Franken could get the Minnesota Supremes to force him to do so.
Posted by CA Pol Junkie at June 30, 2009 12:26 PMColeman's done. Props to him for doing the right thing and not throwing in with the Cornyn Wing of the GOP to drag it out further. In a way, 60 seats for the Dems free's the GOP to blame any and all failures from here on out on Obama and the Dem Congress. Of course, they would have done so anyway, but at least they'll have real numbers to point at. And frankly, at this point, with 60 seats, any and all failures of Obama and the Dem Congress should be their fault. They've got the ball, lets see them run with it.
Posted by T2 at June 30, 2009 01:23 PMProps to him for doing the right thing and not throwing in with the Cornyn Wing of the GOP to drag it out further.
Fuck that shit! That's like saying kudos to Bush for saying "We don't torture...anymore."
Posted by Twinky P* at June 30, 2009 01:47 PMThere you go T2, y'all got all the marbles now. It's now all on you. Make it work, great. Make it not work, seeya. I see Euzo got their panties in a wad up there. What else is new.
Congrats Senator Franken! Enjoy your new stage.
Posted by peter at June 30, 2009 02:20 PMToo bad nobody can see me gloat. I am, I really am.
Posted by Chris R at June 30, 2009 02:50 PMThis is great news for a Dem but kind of scary that the Dems have a supermajority.
Oh well, it could be much worse.
Posted by Ronk at June 30, 2009 02:52 PMAbout damn time.
If it was a baby, you could have called it a full-term delivery. 36 weeks. 36 weeks to draw this shit out. Shame on Norm Coleman, the Minnesota GOP, the national GOP, and any Republican that publicly asserted that this was lawful and necessary.
Posted by idiosynchronic at June 30, 2009 03:19 PMIdio, there never was ANYTHING to the Coleman legal "claims", pure made-up baseless nonsense, and the painstaking recount (concluded in DEC!!) should have been the end of it for any rational candidate/party.
Coleman's Case should be a lesson in hardball to our weak, spineless Dems---what to do in the future when there's a close race we lose, which will certainly happen. Remember the Franken!
Posted by euzoius at June 30, 2009 04:51 PMSorry T2, but no Kudos to Coleman or any republican until they repudiate cheney and his tool bush, limbaugh, the religious wrong, and rove and his fellow traveling scum. The last time a republican did the right thing was when Nixon signed the Clean Air Act.
It isn't a game, you stupid, worthless, lying sack of shit; that's why I have such contempt for troll scum.
Posted by Duckman GR at July 1, 2009 10:04 PM