According to The Hill, Senator John Cornyn has threatened to filibuster any attempt to seat Al Franken as the Senator from Minnesota. He has based this threat on the fact that Al Franken will not have a certificate of election as long as the election results are being challenged in the courts. According to the article, Senator Cornyn stated, "I think it is very clear that the people of Minnesota and the courts in Minnesota should make the decision about who won the Minnesota Senate election, and not political leaders in Washington, D.C. That process is ongoing and will not be resolved, in all likelihood, for weeks and maybe longer."
The past year was a geniunely strange year for politics, and I have a feeling that 2009 might be equally strange.
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