1:15PM EST: The Illinois appellate court has issued a ruling saying the Chicago election board’s decision that Rahm Emanuel is eligible to be on the ballot should be “reversed.”
The state court ruled that he is not a resident of Chicago. Emanuel did not live in the city while serving as President Obama’s chief of staff.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel, a stunning blow to the fund-raising leader in the race.
An appellate panel ruled 2-1 that Emanuel did not meet the residency standard to run for mayor.
Appellate judges Thomas Hoffman and Shelvin Louise Marie Hall ruled against Emanuel. Justice Bertina Lampkin voted in favor of keeping President Obama’s former chief of staff on the Feb. 22 ballot.
“It’s a surprise,” said Kevin Forde, the attorney who argued on Emanuel’s behalf.
Emanuel’s attorneys are expected to use Lampkin’s dissenting opinion to appeal the case to the Illinois Supreme Court.
In today’s ruling, Hoffman wrote: “We … order that the candidate’s name be excluded (or if, necessary, be removed) from the ballot from Chicago’s Feb. 22, 2011.”
Emanuel had won two previous rulings — by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners and a Cook County judge. The case was appealed to the appellate court, which handed down the ruling before noon Monday.
Opponents have argued Emanuel is not a resident of Chicago because he rented out his North Side home while serving as chief of staff to Obama. The renter —Rob Halpin — refused to allow Emanuel to move back in after Mayor Daley’s announcement last year that he would not seek re-election. Halpin briefly ran for mayor himself.
(Source: Chicago Sun Times)
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yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wild news!!!
#1 and #2,
Are you nuts? This will make Carol Moseley-Braun mayor. She was one of the worst US Senators ever, infamously supporting Nigerian dictator Abacha who brought misery to tens of millions.
I assume that he’ll win on appeal on the merits of the case. Going to Washington to serve a President is a temporary absence, not a actual move.
I would say that a Jew is above the position of Mayor in one of the most politically corrupt cities in the country. but then again, Rahm showed his true colors back in Washington.
Even though he will win on appeal it was nice to see the ILSC stand up for the people and say to the Democratic political machine that rules apply to them too!
After the ruling came down I was wondering when Rahm would invoke the Anti Semitism card and have Foxman and the rest of the professional agitators giving press conferences.
It would be nice to have a fiscal conservative in charge of Chicago but that would never happen due to the “diverse” population that feels “taxpayers” owe them the world
REQUEST TO YESHIVA WORLD STAFF: Don’t you think it’s a chillul Hashem having such a photo of him used?