Senator Franken?
Posted on | June 18, 2009
Today’s the day, according to sources:
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.
PIM was the first to note this as a “rumor/scoop” late yesterday via Twitter. At this point we now believe it is “highly likely” to happen; in fact, based on our sources we’d be surprised if it doesn’t. While earlier estimates of 30 days of deliberation got floated, we also heard from someone close to the justices that they would like to move things along quickly, so it’s more plausible that things are getting tied up today.
Update: false alarm.
