Thursday, January 27, 2011

Emanuel In Again

The ruling is in, and it's unanimous, 7-0. The Illinois supreme court says Rahm Emanuel is eligible to be mayor of Chicago.

They cite an 1869 Illinois supreme court ruling that says:
"residence is lost by a union of intention and acts" and that "intention in may cases will be inferred from the surrounding circumstances"
Not a bright line definition, I suppose, but it's true that Emanuel gave no clear sign of abandoning his affiliation with Illinois.

He's at 52 percent in someone's poll.
He cleared a speed bump, and now he's on a roll.

2 comments:

Charlie McDanger said...

Laws, like taxes, are for little people.

John Enright said...

I'm sure it helped that he had good, and presumably expensive, legal counsel.