"Election-law experts who have tracked the case closely are unanimous in believing that Coleman’s appeal before the Minnesota Supreme Court will fail — and that it will likely be by a unanimous decision. That will clear the way for Democrat Al Franken to be seated in the U.S. Senate...Guy-Uriel Charles, a law professor at Duke University...said, 'What he’s asked the Supreme Court to do, as well as what he asked the district court to do, is to ignore Minnesota law as it is written...There didn’t seem to be a single justice on the court for whom this works.”