Ned Foley (a must-read)
Star-Tribune
AP
Minnesota Public Radio
Pioneer Press
MinnPost (on Pawlenty)
Bloomberg
Minnesota Independent
Politico
Nate Silver (on attorneys’ fees)
MSNBC (on the GOP’s silence, suggesting to me a potential throwing in of the towel)
I posted my initial thoughts on the three-judge opinion here. The one part I remain uncertain about is the extent to which the court decided the equal protection claim on the merits. I’m still not sure what the difference is between not looking at the equal protection issue for purposes of finding “deliberate, serious and material” violations of Minnesota law, and looking at the equal protection issue “[t]o the extent Contestants’ equal protection argument raises the issue of whether a vote has been ‘legally cast.'” (P. 38 of opinion.) Surely Coleman’s lawyers will argue, if they file a federal suit, that the state court did not adjudicate (or did not fully adjudicate) the equal protection argument, and that’s the only point I was making in regards to a potential follow on federal lawsuit.