They look at Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution — which makes each house of Congress "the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own members" — and find a power to judge the Blagojevich appoi…
"Mr. Burris, 71 and a Democrat, is a longtime political player in this state, who has run for governor before, including mounting a primary challenge against Mr. Blagojevich. Mr. Obama backed him over Mr. Blagojevich in that…
Ouch! She so deserved that thwarting . *** Click on my Madigan v. Blagojevich tag if you want any details on why I thought Madigan's attempt to oust Blagojevich was terrible law and terrible politics. For now, I'll just …
"Bad language doesn’t make you a criminal." Says Edward Genson , representing Governor Blagojevich. It's true, of course, that "just talking," even in "bad language," is not a crime. Nevertheless…
Says the WSJ. Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation team would have preferred to let the sale of the Senate seat go through and to catch the crime on tape. In fact, the timing of the arrest was dictated by the Chicago Tribune: …
Here's the PDF of the brief filed with the Illinois Supreme Court. As explained in previous posts , Madigan's attempt to oust the Illinois governor relies on Article V, Section 6 of the Illinois constitution: If the Gove…
Does O deserve that? Once, new Presidents got a "honeymoon" -- even after they took office. But there's no honeymoon for Obama, who's been plagued all along by one bad friend after another. (Video via Andrew M…
I read the opening lines of Calvin Trillin's op-ed -- written in June 2006, but featured on the NYT website this morning as an op-ed "classic": MY excitement at the news that Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat of Connect…