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Florida News - October 30, 2010

As voters go to polls, GOP lawyers prepare legal challenges

By | 11.02.10 | 6:00 am

With midterm races in many states coming down to the wire, David Norcross will likely do what a growing cadre of lawyers plans to do on election day: monitor voting trends and results on the ground and help campaigns prepare for the increasingly likely possibility of swift legal challenges.

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Kagan Dodges Question on Bush v. Gore

By | 06.29.10 | 10:50 am

A few minutes ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan avoided giving her opinion on the Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively decided the outcome of the 2000 presidential election.

“It is an important question and a difficult question about how an election contest that at least More…

Cornyn: I’ll Support Norm Coleman if He Appeals to the Supreme Court

By | 06.23.09 | 2:12 pm

At a luncheon at the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s headquarters near Capitol Hill (organized by the Heritage Foundation), I asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) if there was a Republican game plan ready when the Minnesota Supreme Court makes its ruling in the contested 2008 Minnesota Senate race — More…

Who’s Tonya Harding Now?

By | 01.05.09 | 7:10 am

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)* is promising to sue for another recount if, as expected, Al Franken is declared the winner of Minnesota’s Senate race this week. Republicans are promising to back Coleman by filibustering any attempt to seat Franken.

When did this Republican love for extended recounts start? Sometime after More…

Minn. Court to Coleman Lawyer: ‘This Is Not Florida’

By | 12.17.08 | 6:23 pm

Sen. Norm Coleman’s counsel argued before the Minnesota Supreme Court today that wrongly rejected absentee ballots should not be counted in the U.S. Senate canvass, as their inclusion would represent “an invitation to go to Florida,” according to The Minnesota Independent.

But Justice Paul Anderson cut him off and More…