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news.yahoo.com - 12/16/2008
Ill. lawmakers take first step to oust Blagojevich (AP)
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AP - Illinois lawmakers took the first step Monday toward removing Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office as the disgraced Democrat hired a bulldog defense attorney known for taking cases to trial.
blogs.wsj.com - 12/15/2008
The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust: How the Feds Are Frustrated by Losing (Maybe) ...
— blogs.wsj.com — Cam Simpson reports on the Rod Blagojevich case in Chicago. Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. Attorney Patrick... Fitzgerald ordered the FBI to arrest Rod Blagojevich before sunrise Tuesday in order to stop a crime from being committed. That ... (more) The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust: How ...

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chicagotribune.com - 12/15/2008
Illinois lawmakers to sort out Gov. Rod Blagojevich scandal -
— chicagotribune.com — SPRINGFIELD—Illinois lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with plans to disarm and dislodge Democratic Gov. Rod... Blagojevich , whose arrest in an alleged attempt to sell President-elect Barack Obama 's U.S. Senate seat has thrown state government ... (more) Illinois lawmakers to sort out Gov. Rod Blagojevich ...
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bloomberg.com - 12/16/2008
Illinois Democrats Let Blagojevich Keep Naming Power (Update1)
— bloomberg.com — Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats in the Illinois House of Representatives postponed stripping Governor Rod Blagojevich’s power... to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama that prosecutors say Blagojevich tried to sell. The ... (more) Illinois Democrats Let Blagojevich Keep Naming Power ...

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Daily Pundit — Prospect of impeachment now looms over Blagojevich - Yahoo! News Lawmakers Monday quickly shelved the idea of setting a special election where voters would fill the vacant Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama — the seat the governor is accused of trying to sell before his arrest last week on federal corruption charges. You know damned well there isn’t going to be any “special election.” Harry Reid doesn’t want any uncertainty about who the next Democrat Senator from Illinois is going to be, and the corrupt ...

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