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Burris Senate Appointment Still Being Challenged In Court

Progress Illinois | Angela Caputo | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Special Election, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, Pat Quinn, Illinois Senate Appointment, Roland Burris, Roland Burris Senate Appointment, Senate Vacancies, Marty Oberman, Chicago News

The controversy over Sen. Roland Burris' appointment to Illinois' junior senate seat may seem like a lifetime ago. But a group of well-known local att...

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Blair Hull, Former Obama Senate Rival, Sought Seat Again From Blago

Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

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Multimillionaire Chicago trader Blair Hull wanted to be a U.S. senator so badly that he spent more than $24 million of his personal fortune in 2004, b...

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Blago: Brother's Taped Call With Burris Shows 'Nothing Inappropriate'

AP | Posted 07.08.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says a recently released phone conversation taped secretly by federal authorities shows his broth...

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Blago Spoke To Durbin About Appointing Lisa Madigan To Senate: AP

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Just two weeks before his arrest on corruption charges, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich floated a plan to nominate to the U.S. Senate the da...

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Blagojevich Offered $5 Million In Campaign Cash To Appoint Jesse Jackson Jr. To Obama's Senate Seat: Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 05.14.2009 | Chicago

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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's camp was told last year that U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) would raise up to $5 million in campaign cash for the ...

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Blagojevich Would Have Appointed Senator No Matter What: House Speaker

AP | Posted 02.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Special Election, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, Madigan Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Michael Madigan, Blagojevich Special Election, Roland Burris, Chicago News

CHICAGO — The speaker of the Illinois House said Sunday he doesn't think a bill taking away the governor's power to appoint President-elect Bara...

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House Candidate Geoghegan: Senate Appointments Violate Constitution

New York Times | Thomas Geoghegan | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Valenti v. Rockefeller, Roland Burris, Senate Appointments, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, 17th Amendment, Special Elections, Chicago News

IN 2009 four new senators will slip into office -- all in violation of the Constitution, which requires a special election to fill a Senate vacancy. C...

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Burris Says He Had Only One Conversation With Blagojevich

Associated Press | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD-- In a formal affidavit, Roland Burris says he had only one limited conversation with Governor Rod Blagojevich before accepting his appoin...

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Senate Violates the Constitution in Turning Away Roland Burris

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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From a legal and Constitutional perspective, the question of whether or not Burris should be allowed to take his seat as the Junior Senator from Illinois is not especially difficult. He should.

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The Unnoticed U.S. Senate Appointment

Aaron Harber | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Races, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, Salazar, Ritter, Norm Coleman, Senate, Al Franken, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News

There is no question Michael Bennet is a highly-qualified individual who will bring many talents to the U.S. Senate. And there is no reason he could not be a great Senator.

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Roland Burris Stakes Claim To Senate Seat: 'I Am The Senator' (VIDEO)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 02.04.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO - The man who embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named to fill a vacant Senate seat says he hopes legal details regarding his controversi...

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Blagojevich May Accompany Burris To Washington

CBS 2 | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago

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Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his U.S. Senate appointee, former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, might be heading to Washington, D.C., for next wee...

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Burris Plans To Be In Washington Next Week For Senate Swearing-In

Chicago Sun-Times | Kara Spak | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago

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He doesn't have his plane ticket yet, but Roland Burris is planning on traveling to Washington, D.C., for next week's swearing-in ceremony for incomin...

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Black Lawmakers: Burris Pick Won't Help Blagojevich

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Roland Burris is battling for a U.S. Senate seat in court and through the media, briefly shifting the spotlight away from the man who ...

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Burris Takes Senate Seat Fight To Illinois Supreme Court

Chicago Tribune | Ray Long and John Chase | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Roland Burris Senate Certification, Roland Burris Senate, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, Burris Court Petition, Rod Blagojevich, Roland Burris Court Petition, Roland Burris, Jesse White, Chicago News

Democrat Roland Burris went to the Illinois Supreme Court today to fight to be seated in the U.S. Senate. Burris, appointed by disgraced Gov. Rod Bla...

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Illinois Secretary Of State's Refusal Of Burris Appointment May Only Be Symbolic

TPM | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

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A spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White (D) confirmed to Election Central that White knows he does not truly have the authority to sto...

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Burris Stands By Earlier Criticism Of Blagojevich

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pick for the U.S. Senate said Wednesday that he stands behind his earlier criticism of the Illinois g...

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The Governor's Audacity to Appoint

Hermene Hartman | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Rod Blagojevich, Racial Politics, Obama Race, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, Blagojevich Burris, Roland Burris, Blagojevich Scandal, Chicago News

The world may not understand it, but we who live in Illinois got it. And most of all, the politicians got it. I am still the Governor of the State of Illinois, confirmed Mr. Blagojevich.

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How Long Does it Take to Impeach a Crook?

Erica Heller | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

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Does Blagojevich honestly think that if he puffs his chest out far enough and acts as if he hasn't been caught, isn't a disgrace, that we'll go along with it? And even more to the point, will we?

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Blagojevich's Race Card Appointment Was Inevitable

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bobby Rush, Political Appointments, Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama, Roland Burris, Racial Politics, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, Roland Burris Race Card, Blagojevich Race Card, Bobby Rush Race, Rod Blagojevich, Politics News

The idea that there are seats and appointments specially reserved for blacks and minorities in Illinois or anywhere else is hardly an aberration. Politicians shuffle the race card all the time.

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Bobby Rush's Reversal: Congressman Had Called Blagojevich's Conduct 'Heinous,' Said He Should Not Appoint Senator

Chicago Sun-Times | Chris Fusco | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

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Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Dec. 9 said Gov. Blagojevich's alleged conduct was so "heinous" that the governor should not fill President-elect Barack O...

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Rep. Danny Davis Turned Down Blagojevich Senate Appointment

Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) would like to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the Senate. The appointment was dangled before him la...

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