Burris Senate Appointment Still Being Challenged In Court
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...
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 07.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says a recently released phone conversation taped secretly by federal authorities shows his broth...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 05.14.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
AP | Posted 02.11.2009 | Chicago
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...
New York Times | Thomas Geoghegan | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago
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...
Associated Press | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD-- In a formal affidavit, Roland Burris says he had only one limited conversation with Governor Rod Blagojevich before accepting his appoin...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
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.
Aaron Harber | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
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.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 02.04.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO - The man who embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named to fill a vacant Senate seat says he hopes legal details regarding his controversi...
CBS 2 | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Kara Spak | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
Chicago Tribune | Ray Long and John Chase | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
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...
TPM | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
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...
Hermene Hartman | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
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.
Erica Heller | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
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?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics
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.
Chicago Sun-Times | Chris Fusco | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's choice of a veteran black politician to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat could b...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — Rep. Bobby Rush says he doesn't think any U.S. senator would be caught turning a black man away from serving alongside them. He th...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 01.30.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Roland Burris was once a popular figure in every part of Illinois. But that was years ago. Burris, 71, hasn't won an electi...
Progress Illinois | Angela Caputo | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago