Christ, who would have thought I'd still be using the 'MN-Sen' prefix in February?

Today, the Franken campaign asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to certify the election of Franken provisionally until former Senator Coleman's litigation can play out.

From TPM:

The Minnesota Supreme Court just finished hearing arguments in Al Franken's lawsuit to obtain an immediate certificate of election, and it has become clear that the court faces a very tough choice: Issue an election certificate now, which would have a theoretical chance of being undone later by pending litigation, and to do so against the commonly-understood meaning of state statutes -- or have Minnesota go without two seats in the Senate for months.

Team Franken's argument revolved around the failure of the state of Minnesota to deliver a certificate of election to the US Senate in order to fulfill Minnesota's constitutional right to representation by 2 Senators, not just 1. Franken attorney Marc Elias argued that the failure to send a second Senator to Washington was hurting Minnesota as well as the ability of the US Senate to properly deal with the huge issues currently facing it.

From The Star Tribune (via DemConWatch):

Members of Minnesota's Supreme Court questioned whether they can force the state to temporarily let Democrat Al Franken serve in the U.S. Senate while Republican Norm Coleman's challenges an election recount in court.

Franken's lawyer, Marc Elias, urged the state's highest court during arguments today in St. Paul not to leave one of the state's two Senate seats empty while "the nation faces questions of war and peace."

"I see by the newspapers that a stimulus package may be decided by one vote," Elias told the court.

Which brings us to Coleman's ultimate strategy here. He knows the chances of winning this thing are next to nil. At this point, he's just trying to obstruct President Obama's agenda, which, actually one vote in the Senate does make a difference.