CHICAGO (AP) -- On the day Roland Burris was sworn in as a new U.S. senator, the Illinois Republican Party blasted Democrats for letting the state bec...
AP | JULIE HIRSHFELD DAVIS | Posted 02.13.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — Senate appointee Roland Burris will be sworn into office Thursday, his office said, closing a painful and protracted certification ...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 02.12.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — Eager to put the scandal-tainted standoff behind them, Senate Democrats accepted Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's Se...
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.
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...
Politico | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics
Roland Burris, the man Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich picked to succeed Barack Obama in the Senate, might get to etch another accolade into the monumen...
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.30.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Rod Blagojevich's defiant appointment of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate could wind up hastening his own impeachment, a member of the House impe...
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.30.2009 | Chicago
Disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Obama's vacant Sen...
AP | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago