"Illinois Supreme Court rejects [Illinois Attorney General] Madigan bid to declare Blagojevich 'unfit'":
How Appealing points to a Chicago Tribune article with this headline, and also points to the brief orders from the court on this subject. (There apparently is, and will be, no opinion explaining the judges' reasoning in detail.)
UPDATE: The Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman says "the Illinois Supreme Court did exactly the right thing."
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I sense a vacant Senator's seat for a while since the prosecutor has no incentive to cut a deal with the governor.
And she's the AG of Illinois. But she's not only the AG, she was also prospective "candidate #2" on Blago's list of candidate's to fill Obama's empty seat in the senate!
Don't forget that Lisa Madigan is also the daughter of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a long-standing political enemy of Blago's. Coincidence? Not in Illinois.
Odd that those two words have such similar meaning. . .
No impeachment + No trial = No judgement
I wonder whether the court deliberated whether the petition she filed was sufficient to declare Attorney General Madigan to have a "disability" disqualifying her from office.
You are mistaken. President-elect Obama resigned his Senate seat effective November 16.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has already said he'll refuse to seat anyone Blago nominates. So who would accept an appointment under those circumstances?
Under Powell v. McCormack, it's unclear that he has the right to refuse to seat a person with the requisite constitutional qualifications. He might be able to expel the person, but that would require a higher threshold of votes than a simple majority (which is what I'd presume Reid would argue the threshold would be for judging such an appointee not fit to take his/her seat), and might conceivably not pass, depending on how well-connected or sympathetic the appointee was.
Now, I'd agree that Reid could certainly make life miserable for this temporary appointee, and that no serious politician would have an incentive to accept a Blagojevich appointment at this point. But it doesn't seem to be as simple a matter as Reid makes it out to be.
He'll definitely be ousted, the legislators hated him long before they had the perfect excuse to get rid of him.
The fact that the ploy wouldn't work doesn't necessarily preclude Blago from doing it. He could still do it just to piss people off. I guess he's not quite as brazen and crazy as I imagined him to be.
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