| Subject: [EL] Son of Breaking News |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 1/25/2011, 11:37 AM |
| To: "Rick.Hasen@lls.edu" <Rick.Hasen@lls.edu> |
| CC: Rick Hasen <hasenr@gmail.com>, "legislation@mailman.lls.edu" <legislation@mailman.lls.edu>, Election Law <election-law@mailman.lls.edu> |
Reply-to: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" |
Chicago
Tribune: The Illinois Supreme Court will take Rahm's appeal,
and will decide it on the existing briefing, without oral
argument. What to make of that? First, the Court sees the need to
act very quickly, given the imminent election. Second, I don't
think they would have taken this step if there wasn't a fairly
good chance of a reversal, thereby allowing Emanuel to run.
Breaking News: Illinois Supreme Court Orders Emanuel's Name to Stay on Ballot Pending Decision on Appeal
How to read this development? On the one hand, the court would be unlikely to do it if they were not seriously considering taking the case. On the other hand, Emanuel would suffer irreparable injury if this stay were not granted. Once the ballots would be printed without his name, unless they could be reprinted he'd have virtually no chance to win (aside from a possible Murkowski-like massive write-in campaign).
Posted by Rick Hasen at 10:41 AM--
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