Illinois Politics

THE man chosen by Illinois's scandal-tainted Governor to fill president-elect Barack Obama's seat has been symbolically barred from the Senate, in the latest twist of a bizarre political sideshow. Roland Burris, 71, was picked last week to fill Mr ...  

Times OnlineBlagojevich Impeachment Panel Demands Donation List Bloomberg - 39 minutes ago By Joe Carroll Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A panel of Illinois lawmakers considering the impeachment of Governor Rod Blagojevich ordered his campaign committee to turn over the names of every donor and the...  

SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president - just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama's Senate seat, possibly for a cushy union job.  

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) suggested a few moments ago that if Roland Burris leaps a few remaining legal hurdles, and pending a full Senate vote to seat him, he will likely become the junior senator from IL. Reid, who stongly opposed seating embattled IL Gov...  

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president _ just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama's Senate seat, possibly for a cushy union job...  

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington just released their list of the most embarrassing re-elected members of Congress. Since these awards are for Congress, and poor Rod Blagojevich is only the Governor of Illinois, he doesn't qualify. But, as he seems to have been one of the more...  

SPRINGFIELD-- In a formal affidavit, Roland Burris says he had only one limited conversation with Governor Rod Blagojevich before accepting his appointment as a U.S. senator. Burris submitted the affidavit to the Illinois House committee considering impeachment of the governor. He's supposed to...  

Roland Burris, Gangsternor Rod Blagojevich's pick to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat, is currently being banned from Congress while his appointer faces criminal charges. That's bad news for the gays, as Burris has been a consistent proponent of gay rights and would be an asset on the Senate...  

Gov. Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president — just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama's Senate seat, possibly for a cushy union job.  

Governor Rod Blagojevich's alleged efforts to secure campaign payments from harness racing businessman Johnny Johnston in exchange for a signing that directed casino revenue to horse racing could come back to haunt him.  

As John notes below, Senate Democrats blocked Roland Burris from taking his seat in the Senate today. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich duly appointed Burris to fill Barack Obama's seat. This is Blagojevich's prerogative as governor, and it's difficult to perceive a legitimate basis for...  

Roland Burris, Senator-Designate from the State of Illinois, has been denied a seat in the United States Senate for now.  The newly-appointed successor to Barack Obama reluctantly accepted the appointment by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, after expressing his total disgust at the “appalling...  

Rush Limbaugh today said that disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris had rolled president-elect Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., The Second. They have apparently won the fight, and Burris will be seated in the U.S. Senate. Illinois Secretary of State...  

CHICAGO — Members of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment panel say they will move forward despite the possibility that they might not get to hear federal wiretaps of the governor's conversations with aides and others. "These tapes are relevant evidence, we'd like to have them," David Ellis, a...  

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president — just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama's ...