Coleman/Franken makes it to the final rounds of the Minnesota Supreme Court

The voting contention between Norm Coleman and Al Franken that has been going on for six months now enters the Minnesota Supreme Court. March 15 marked the day that the last step of legal documents that each side needed to file for the appeal. So the next step is the oral arguments that will occur on June 1. The article  details how Coleman's lawyers argue that their was a discrepancy between rejected absentee ballots in different counties. The amount of rejected

ballots are 4400, easily enough to tip the 312 lead that Franken has. If the Minnesota Supreme Court

disagrees with Coleman's appeal, he can appeal one more time to the US Supreme Court if allowed.

Otherwise, Al Franken gets the second Senate seat for the Democratic Party and give the Democratic Senate the 

ability to be unfilibusterable.

There is no deadline for the state Supreme Court to rule after the June 1 oral arguments.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/15/coleman_finalbrief/