LOL: Blago to Appoint Fmr. AG to Senate Seat

[minionofmidas]

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/blagojevich-to-name-burris-to-senate.html

[minionofmidas]

Constituion: "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business..."

There are no elections or returns to judge. Qualifications, by precedent, are limited to age, residency, & citizenship. 

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/12/senate-might-not-have-authority-to.html

Does anyone think the Senate wouldn't get its way on this? The Supreme Court won't touch it.

Why not? They had as little authority in Bush vs Gore.

[minionofmidas]

The Senate would function better with one vacancy than the White House would.

One would think the White House would have functioned better with a vacancy than with what we actually got.

Anyways the issue would, at most, have been 25 vacancies in the Electoral College.

[minionofmidas]

He's black.  Reid has to seat him.

Racist.



(Though you may well end up to be right. And if so, there'll be no way to prove that other factors played a major role as well...)