So does Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have the right to appoint Roland Burris as the next senator from Illinois or doesn’t he?
A helpful analysis from CNN.com notes the following:
Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to be “judge of the elections, returns and
Nice post, Matt, but I’m afraid you’re a bit off the mark. I wrote the real scoop on Burris and Blagojevich in the Washington City Paper, where I do my serious political reporting.
Not really sure how the MSM got this one so wrong.
Pro Publica’s Ben Protess does some digging into the past of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, who was chosen to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Blagojevich was arrested last month for scheming to sell the seat. It seems there is at least More…
Looks like the President-elect is as eager of the rest of us to see Rod Blagojevich’s ploy to install Roland Burris in the U.S. Senate relegated to a weird YouTube-ready quirk of history. Just emailed from the transition:
“Roland Burris is a good man and a fine public servant,
In a press conference that can be described only as solid-gold entertainment, former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris accepted disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s appointment to the US Senate Tuesday afternoon, distancing himself from the Blagojevich scandal with the claim, “I have no relationship with that situation.” (Though, he shared the More…
As expected, the Obama-Biden transition team’s report detailing its conversations with the office of Illinois’ Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich about filling President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat clears all transition members of any wrongdoing.
As political reporters wait for the release of the Obama-Biden transition’s report on its interactions with the office of disgraced Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, it’s hard not to wonder about the timing.
The release is expected later today at 4:30 p.m. EST. Taking at face value the transition team’s More…
In his first public statement on the corruption charges levied against him, Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) confidently and energetically denied that he had done anything wrong.
“I’m here to tell you right off the bat that I’m not guilty of any wrongdoing,” he opened. “I will fight, I will fight, More…
Keeping his presser-a-day streak alive, this morning President-elect Barack Obama filled two more cabinet slots, nominating former Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) as secretary of agriculture and Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Col.) as secretary of the interior.
A month ago, Vilsack was considered the front-runner for the agriculture position, but in More…
The New York Times’ David Johnston has an interesting analysis today of the Blagojevich scandal, noting that prosecutors might have swooped in on the case too early — before the Illinois governor had actually done anything wrong — or at least, anything illegal.
Defense lawyers are already pointing out, More…
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