politico.com - 12/31/2008
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Responding to arguments that the Senate can only rule on narrow issues of qualifications, and not refuse to seat a member based on some broader judgment, Harry Reid's spokesman, Jim Manley, emails over the argument of the Democratic leadership:
In response to those who are asking how this is ...
firedoglake.com - 1/7/2009
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firedoglake.com —
I want to play poker with Harry Reid.
Really I do. Rather than call for a special
election in Illinois, Reid sends a letter to Blagojevich signed by everyone in the Democratic caucus asking him to step down. They assert that they will not seat ...
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I Want to Play Poker with Harry Reid
blogs.dailymail.com - 1/3/2009
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blogs.dailymail.com —
Chicago Sun-Times: Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid lobbied
Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich for Reid’s choice for the
Senate.
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Unclean hands
thehill.com - 1/7/2009
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thehill.com —
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday
that Democrats have to be “very, very careful” about
overreaching. In an interview with The Hill, Reid argued that it is essential for President-elect Obama and congressional Democrats to work ...
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Reid: Dems must be ‘very careful’ about overreaching
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Hotline On Call Part Deux —
... Responding to those arguments, Reid spokesperson Jim Manley stated: "[W]e are not making a judgment about qualifications of appointee, but about whether appointment itself is tainted by fraud.... This is like judging the integrity of an election, free from fraud or corruption." In other words, the Powell and Burris scenarios are very different. The Powell case involved a questionable candidate but a legitimate process (a free and fair election). The Burris case involves a legitimate candidate but a questionable process (an appointment by a governor arrested ...
Reid's Constitutional Argument on Burris
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
As we've been reporting, any attempt by the Democrats to deny seating Roland Burris is undermined by the Supreme Court's Powell v McCormack decision, which held that the Congress is limited in its ability to challenge the qualifications of its members to grounds explicitly outlined by the Constitution. Reid spokesman Jim Manley, by way of Ben Smith, has word on the Majority Leader's potential workaround: In response to those who are asking how this is different from Powell v. McCormack, in which supreme court said House could not ...
Harry Reid Ain’t Going to Block Roland Burris from Taking Obama’s Senate Seat
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s arguments that he and the Democrat Caucus will be able to block Hot Rod Blagojevich’s apointment of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat are laughable. ...
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