John Cornyn to filibuster Franken?

Apparently Al Franken is comfortable enough in his questionable 49 vote lead in the ongoing recount battle for Norm Coleman’s Senate seat, that there is an apparent attempt to fill the seat in the coming week, regardless of ongoing contested ballots in the Minnesota courts.

Senator John Cornyn has promised that he intends to filibuster any attempts to install Al Franken as Senator (even temporarily) without a certificate of election.

“This is a very, very serious matter. I can assure you that there will be no way that people on our side of the aisle will agree to seat any senator without a valid certificate. 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.”

I have to say I agree with him… seating a candidate without official declaration from the state is questionable at best. There are at the very least, 650 rejected ballots being questioned by Coleman’s legal team as well as more than 1,300 already contested absentee ballots. The election is not over so neither Coleman OR Franken should be seated, even IF it is temporary.