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Breaking: Senate Democrats Will Seat Roland Burris
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPolitico is reporting that Senate Democrats have decided to accept the credentials of Senator-designate Roland Burris (D) and seat him as the replacement for President-elect Barack Obama. Senate Democrats have been twisting and turning for weeks in their attempts to find a way to deny Burris his seat, and live up to their commitment to refuse any appointee from scandal-plagued Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D). As recently as this weekend, Sen. Dick Durbin hinted that Burris might not ultimately be seated due to the controversy surrounding his appointment and his credentials, which the ...
Seating Roland Burris Good for Harry Reid, Bad for Illinois Voters
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIt is looking more and more likely that the Roland Burris Senate appointment saga will end with Burris (D) being seated by the Senate despite his appointment by disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D). The people of Illinois will in all likelihood be be denied the opportunity to vote on a successor to President-elect Barack Obama. And the suits Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) just fine, despite his public pronouncements that no one appointed by Blagojevich would ever become a United States Senator.Reid's first and only concern – from before the governor's attempts to ...
Burris to Sue Senate for Seat
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyTimothy Wright, a lawyer for disputed Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris (D), has written a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), pleading his client's case to be seated when the Senate opens the first session of the 111th Congress today. In the letter, Wright strongly hints at the possibility of a lawsuit if Senate Democrats follow through on their plans to refuse Burris his seat on the grounds that his appointment by scandal-plagued Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) is illegitimate.Wright rests his ...
Documents Show Barack Obama Misled on Blagojevich Contacts
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyJudicial Watch, the conservative open government advocacy group, says it has obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request from the office of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) which show that there was some contact between President-elect Obama and Blagojevich in the days before the governor was arrested on charges of attempting to auction Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. The documents, a December 3rd letter signed by Obama, and a letter from Obama transition team co-chairmen Valerie Jarrett and John Podesta, are in themselves not damning; but ...
Harry Reid Contacted Corrupt Illinois Governor About Senate Vacancy
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyDisgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) continues to be a major thorn in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) side. First, Blagojevich practically dared Reid to make good on Senate Democrats' threat not to seat any candidate nominated by Blagojevich when he appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. Reid immediately labeled Burris "unacceptable," and said that Burris would not be seated if he shows up at the Capitol for the opening session of Congress. Now, in response, Blagojevich is upping the ante against ...
Patrick Fitzgerald Seeks More Time to Return Blagojevich Indictment
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a potentially worrisome development for the incoming Obama administration, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has asked a federal judge for an extension of the deadline to return an indictment against disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on charges of official corruption. Fitzgerald filed a motion in federal court today seeking an additional 90 days during which he will continue to investigate the governor. If the motion is granted, which seems likely, Fitzgerald will have until early April before he has to bring charges against Blagojevich.In the court filing, Fitzgerald said that ...
Blagojevich Appointment Puts Senate Democrats in a Bind
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe surprise appointment of Roland Burris by scandal-plagued Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich forces Senate Democrats into a politically uncomfortable position. If they refuse to seat the 71 year-old and relatively well respected African-American, they run the risk of angering the black community which voted in overwhelming numbers for President-elect Barack Obama, and would he denied a sitting black Senator. If they seat Burris, they will accept the appointment of a political pariah in Blagojevich, whom Senate Democrats have publicly called on to resign and forgo exercising his appointment ...
Illinois Senate Scandal Could Drag on for Months
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyWriting on his personal blog, Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell University William Jacobsen has an interesting take on the Illinois Senate Scandal, in which Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich allegedly conspired to auction off an appointment to President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. Jacobsen has been reading the coverage of the recent decision of the Illinois House of Representatives panel holding impeachment hearings against the governor not to call Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and close friend Valerie Jarrett to testify. Jacobsen writes that a key distinction ...
Barack Obama Could Use Loophole to Keep Blagojevich Records Secret
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn anticipation of the release of the Obama transition team's internal review of contacts between members of the transition staff and disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, media outlets are beginning to ask questions about the level of detail that will accompany the report. Specifically, some in the press want a look at e-mails, records of phone conversations, and notes kept by transition lawyers from interviews with staffers. But a quirk in the law that requires presidential administrations to preserve all official records could allow President-elect Barack Obama to keep any documemts ...
Rahm Emanuel's Involvement in Illinois Senate Scandal Deeper Than Disclosed
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, engaged in direct conversations with disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich over the appointment of a successor to fill Obama's vacated Senate seat, a source with knowledge of the investigation tells the Chicago Sun-Times. Emanuel spoke with Blagojevich in the days immediately following Obama election victory, and pushed for the appointment of Obama friend and confidant Valerie Jarrett. The source says that Emanuel wanted Jarrett appointed to the post by a date certain. The Obama transition team denies that Emanuel and ...
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