1.0 link 154322 <![CDATA[Roland Burris Almost Certain To Be Seated, Legal Scholars Say]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/30/roland-burris-has-lock-on_n_154322.html Rod Blagojevich's decision to appoint Roland Burris to Illinois' vacant Senate seat, even as the governor faces intense criminal scrutiny, is being treated as a crazy political power grab. It also seems very likely to be permanent.

A legal scholar writes in to say that precedent surrounding the Senate's right to not seat certain members seems very likely to fall in Burris' favor.

"My reading of Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486, is that the Senate probably can NOT constitutionally block Burris...

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