Posted on 01/17/2009 10:02:03 AM PST by flattorney
Just a guess but I suspect what the democrats expected to happen after attempting their steal was that the Coleman campaign would graciously concede Nixon-style and the GOP would encourage him to do that. I seriously doubt they anticipated a fight.
dirty harry also said," The war is lost" and " I'll never seat anyone that blagobitch appoints".
dingy harry has a crocodile's mouth and gnat's nuts.
I believe that Coleman may be tougher than a lot of members of the GOP that we have seen. It is an adversary system and if he shows solid leadership, has good lawyers and can compel the governor to show some backbone he may win.
Judges get appointed for many reasons. Many, for example, are lawyers from good firms who don’t find them that helpful in the practice and so want to place them on the bench to have an ally there.
It would be interesting to get bios on these particular judges.
The Fact of the matter is that the US Senate has no legal standing not to seat a member if said member has been certified by the State's Sec. of State.
This is why Mr. Franken has not been seated. He has yet to be certified by the Minnesota Sec. of State.
When either Mr. Franken or Mr. Coleman receive said certification the "high and mighty, grand pooba Harry Reid will have no legal standing to "not seat" that person.
This is exactly why Senator Burris was denied his seat originally. He had not yet been certified by the Illinois Sec.of State.
When he received said certification he was seated..as the US Senate was legally bound to do.
Reid says lots of things that are not to be believed.
Rats have twice not seated certified winners (NH senate race and Indianna house race). I am not sure why the Minnesota situation is different. The Senate is not guided by state law. Coleman will never be seated. I am not sure if Republicans can stop the seating of Franken if Coleman is certified as the winner.
Good to hear.
"The Senate Democrats made it clear weeks ago that they CANNOT accept an appointment made by a governor who is accused of selling this very Senate seat. I agree with their decision. We say this without prejudice toward Roland Burris's ability, and we respect his years of public service... Under these circumstances, anyone appointed by Gov. Blagojevich cannot be an effective representative of the people of Illinois and, as we have said, will NOT be seated by the Democratic Caucus."
That having been said, what gives me a wee bit of optimism is that the courts and Senate haven't already ordered Franken seated.
Maybe there's more to this than is being made public.
What’s really sad is that there was ever any need for a re-count. Franken is a buffoon, and too many MN voters didn’t seem to think that.
No data regarding Dingy, but based upon my college biology courses, you are either seriously insulting gnats everywhere, or grossly overestimating Dingy.
In the Supreme Court's Order concerning how to review the rejected absentee ballots, the Court ordered reps from both parties to review all of the ballots, and to agree upon which ones were improperly rejected. Those ballots would then be opened and counted. The Court admonished both sides to put politics aside and do it right, reminding them of Rule 11 of the Rules of Civil Procedures (which provides for sanctions against attorneys) if they don't. Coleman's team played fair, but Franken's didn't in refusing to allow obvious errors to be corrected in Republican counties. This is the Supreme Court's fault, as there is no basis in state law for this action.
As Carey correctly points out in his column, Minnesota law leaves these types of issues to election contests, which allows for an open process and court supervision. That is why I have long railed against the cries that this election has been stolen. Let the Court process play itself out, first. Aside from Franken's manuevering with the rejected absentee ballots, there hasn't been evidence of partisan interference in this recount process.
And we all know how well that turned out. sarc/
The initial judge in Washington where the contested election was challenged, was appointed by a Republican, who then recused himself over a minor technicality which a dimwit judge would NEVER do. The court case was then heard by a supposedly "fair" judge (dimwit nevertheless) who decided that the thousands of add'l votes in King County & other dimwit precincts all were allowed to stand.
The dimwit judge listened....took careful notes....appeared judicious....and promptly ruled in favor of Fraudoire. Case closed.
It will be a miracle if liberal MN judges allow the contested ballots & issues to be ruled in favor of Coleman and overtake Franken's corrupted stolen election. I am from MN and I don't see this happening at all. Kudos for Coleman however. It is refreshing to see just for a change, a Repub that puts up a fight and stays with it. We shall see for how long.
In 1968, in a nearly unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Earl Warren for eight members of the Court, the Supreme Court held that "the Constitution leaves the House without authority to exclude any person, duly elected by his constituents, who meets all the requirements for membership expressly prescribed in the Constitution." Those qualification are expressly enumerated within the body of the Constitution and relate only to eligibility requirements such as age and residence.
In answer to your second question as to whether Republicans could stop Franken from being seated if he was certified the answer, according to the Constitution and the USSC, is an unequivocal NO!! This also applies to Coleman should he win his suit and become certified by the Minn Sec of State.
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