thehill.com - 1/12/2009
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Lawyers for Roland Burris will be in Washington Monday to meet with Senate attorneys and press their case for seating Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D) controversial appointee. A senior Senate Democratic aide said the various legal teams will review documents that Burris has collected in ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/12/2009
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com —
Senate Democratic leaders today cleared the way for
Roland Burris to be seated as a senator from
Illinois, after more than a weeklong spectacle surrounding the state’s corruption scandal and the questioning of Mr. Burris’s credentials. After Mr. ...
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Burris Cleared to Take Senate Seat
chicagobreakingnews.com - 1/12/2009
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chicagobreakingnews.com —
WASHINGTON--Roland Burris won his battle to succeed Barack
Obama as the junior senator from Illinois this afternoon
as Senate Democrats dropped their objections and said he should be seated this week. The agreement came after Senat lawyers said Burris ...
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Senate Democrats agree to seat Burris this week
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Burris Attorneys in Washington Monday
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Lawyers for the Illinois Senate hopeful will meet with Senate attorneys and press for their client to be seated.
Burris allies hope he'll be seated by mid-week. ...
Durbin says Burris' resolution may soon be at hand
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... which he believes meets an 1884 Senate rule requiring all senators to have certificates signed by their states' governors and secretaries of state. Burris has his appointment papers by Blagojevich and a statement that Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has signed that authenticates the appointment. He does not have both signatures of Blagojevich and White on the certification document, however, and Senate leaders have been using that as a means to bar him being sworn in ... http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/burris-lawyers-in-s...
Burris Attorneys in Washington Monday
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Lawyers for the Illinois Senate hopeful will meet with Senate attorneys and press for their client to be seated.
Burris allies hope ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... Roland Burris' attorneys will be in Washington today to press the Senate leadership on the legality of Burris' appointment to the Illinois Senate seat. This comes after Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White issued a certified copy of Burris' certificate of appointment -- though he did not sign the appointment itself -- and after the state Supreme Court declared that the appointment was legal under Illinois law regardless of White's signature. ...
Burris' Lawyers Make Their Case
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Lawyers for Roland Burris will be in Washington today "to meet with
Senate attorneys and press their case for seating Illinois Gov. Rod
Blagojevich's (D) controversial appointee," The Hill reports. ...
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Burris' fate could be decided Monday —
CNN Political Ticker 1/11/2009
Senate-appointee Roland Burris' fate could be decided on Monday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The fate of Senate-appointee Roland Burris could be decided as soon as Monday, Democratic sources said, as the Senate's Parliamentarian and legal counsel ...
'Gnawing' Burris trumps Summers? —
First Read 1/12/2009
From NBC’s Ken Strickland Attorneys for Roland Burris are expected to file new documents tomorrow with the U.S. Senate in a renewed effort to claim the seat vacated by Barack Obama . According to Dick Durbin , the state's senior senator, a ...
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