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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Political notebook: Gay marriage debate set Tuesday in committees
By Don Davis Gay advocates have lobbied for allow same-sex marriages for years, but they made little progress. That appears ready to change Tuesday when House and Senate committees will hear bills...
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Political notebook: Another person considers running for governor 
Former state Sen. Steve Kelley of Hopkins is the latest to form an exploratory committee on whether he should enter the race for Minnesota governor.
By Don Davisand Scott Wente , February 23, 2009
Court will not rethink U.S. Senate ballot ruling
Judges presiding over the U.S. Senate election trial will not reconsider their decision to block some rejected absentee ballots from being reviewed for counting. The decision is a setback for Republican Norm Coleman (above).
By Scott Wente , February 18, 2009
Minnesota Senate trial speeds up, but the end still is far off
The Minnesota Senate trial picked up speed Tuesday, with the lawyers plowing through evidence more quickly than at any other time in the trial.
February 18, 2009
Franken: 'Senator-elect' not presumptuous
Al Franken’s campaign called him “Sen.-elect Franken” in a press release trumping his visit to Duluth Monday. In a City Hall press conference with Mayor Don Ness, Franken didn’t think the title presumptuous.
February 16, 2009
Pace picking up in Minnesota Senate trial
Judges in Minnesota's Senate trial set out a schedule today for the next three days that indicates they will rule soon on some of the main arguments.
By Patrick Condon , February 12, 2009
Coleman, Franken plan differently for the Senate
Al Franken and Norm Coleman are preparing differently as they await an outcome in their Senate election, now three months overdue.
By Scott Wente , February 07, 2009
Ballot review could take weeks
By Scott Wente , February 05, 2009
Judges OK consideration of 5,000 ballots in lawsuit over Senate election
The judges in Minnesota’s Senate election trial threw Republican Norm Coleman a lifeline on Tuesday, opening the door to adding nearly 5,000 absentee ballots to a race that Democrat Al Franken leads by just 225 votes.
By Patrick Condon , February 04, 2009
Millions spent in Minnesota Senate recount
Al Franken and Norm Coleman are spending millions in the ongoing U.S. Senate fight.
By Scott Wente , February 03, 2009
Senate trial begins Week 2
The U.S. Senate election contest bore into absentee voting policies today as the trial entered a second week.
By Scott Wente swente@forumcomm.com , February 02, 2009
In Senate trial, Coleman turns to Bush v. Gore
The success of Norm Coleman’s lawsuit to reclaim a Minnesota Senate seat could depend on how willing the trial judges are to find a precedent in the Supreme Court ruling from another messy, political charged election battle: Bush v. Gore.
By Patrick Condon , February 02, 2009
Trial focuses on absentee ballot processing
Attorneys for Norm Coleman sought Friday to show that in the crush of absentee ballots submitted in the final days of his U.S. Senate race, elections judges sometimes made mistakes.
By Chris Williams , January 31, 2009
Campaigns seize on testimony
Attorneys for Norm Coleman and Al Franken each claim one man’s testimony boosted their case, but he said the court, not a campaign, was the intended beneficiary.
By Scott Wente , January 29, 2009
One candidate in, one out of trial spotlight
Norm Coleman has a job but sat in a courtroom this week watching to see if he will land a different job.
By Scott Wente, Minn. State Capitol Bureau , January 29, 2009
Markings on absentee ballots upset Coleman case
The first day of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate trial ended with the judges throwing a curveball at Republican Norm Coleman’s case that probably will push the end of the contest even further into the future.
By Patrick Condon , January 27, 2009
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