Darn. Just when kos seemed to be gearing up for a mocking week-long countdown, Norm Coleman's lawyers announce they're appealing his loser status to the state Supreme Court today.
Via The Minnesota Independent:
Norm Coleman has kept his word and will appeal his election-contest loss today to the Minnesota Supreme Court, his lawyers said. The former U.S. senator’s petition asks the state’s high court to find fault with last week’s election contest court ruling that Democrat Al Franken won Coleman’s old Senate seat by 312 votes.
Coleman lawyers Ben Ginsberg and Jim Langdon told reporters by phone that the petition highlights alleged double-counting of votes and failure to count thousands of rejected absentee ballots. Among the arguments are equal-protection and due-process claims based on the U.S. Constitution, which Langdon said the high court would have broader discretion to consider than did the lower three-judge election contest court, which he said was more constrained by prior court rulings.
Langdon estimated that oral arguments Coleman’s side is requesting could come in two weeks to two months, although the Supreme Court isn’t actually obligated to hold oral arguments at all. He said he expects "a very time-sensitive and expedited schedule" — in part because rules obligate the court to drop everything else for this kind of case.