Rumors abound that the Minnesota Supreme Court will rule today on Coleman/Franken.
PIM has now heard from two sources on different sides of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race recount scene that the final Minnesota Supreme Court ruling is expected to arrive tomorrow, Thursday, June 18th. The ruling could arrive between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., a shift from the earlier deadline of 5 p.m. (The PioPress‘ Rachel Stassen-Berger said it was because the clerks head out at 4:30.) The official Senate race judicial information page is here, and this is the RSS feed which would likely carry the notification.
The Al Franken decade may be about to begin.
Or is it? Chris Steller at the Minnesota Independent:
The hour has passed when the Minnesota Supreme Court makes its weekly release of opinions — without a ruling in the Norm Coleman-Al Franken election contest.
Rumors are rampant that an order is imminent in Coleman’s appeal of the lower-court decision giving Franken a 312-point margin of victory in the 2008 election for U.S. Senate. (UPDATE: And it will favor Franken, according to one Twitterer.)
The high court normally releases opinions online at 10 a.m. Thursday, although a court spokesman has advised the Minnesota Independent that he expected justices to publicize their ruling as soon as it is ready.
According to Minnesota Supreme Court spokesperson Lissa Finne, there are two ways the court indicates a decision. Either it notifies counsel on both sides early in the week that a decision is coming on Thursday, or, in time sensitive cases, notification goes out right before a decision is released.
Finne tells me that no notification has gone out from the court to counsel on either side, which makes it unclear how it is that the blog’s sources would have heard this. “I don’t know where they got that from,” Finne says.
If a ruling comes out, we’ll have it here.
