NATIONAL BRIEFING / MINNESOTA
Minnesota will head into June without a second U.S. senator under the state Supreme Court’s schedule for hearing Republican Norm Coleman’s appeal.
The court said it wouldn’t hold oral arguments until June 1, later than Democrat Al Franken had hoped.
In the intervening weeks, the schedule gives the two sides various deadlines for written filings and responses.
Comic-turned-activist Franken has a 312-vote lead in the race over Coleman.
But neither of them can take office until the state courts finish considering Coleman’s lawsuit.
Coleman hopes the court will reverse several rulings by a three-judge panel that backed Franken.
At 5 1/2 months and counting, the race has gone on longer than any election in Minnesota history.
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