Illinois Supreme Court to hear Rahm Emanuel case; stays on ballot

[EV_Ares]

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would hear Rahm Emanuel’s appeal to be kept on the Chicago mayoral ballot, just hours after granting a stay to keep him there until the court makes a final ruling on whether the former White House chief of staff is an eligible candidate.

The court said it had granted Emanuel’s request to hear the appeal on an “expedited basis,” using briefs that both sides filed with the appellate court. A spokesman for the high court said there will be no additional briefs or oral arguments.

Earlier Tuesday, the high court approved a stay to keep Emanuel on the ballot.

“It is ordered that the emergency motion, by petitioner Rahm Emanuel, for stay pending appeal is allowed in part,” the order said, noting that the court is still weighing whether to grant his request for an expedited appeals process.

The stay stops the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners from printing ballots without Emanuel’s name, which the board said it was planning to begin Tuesday. “If any ballots are printed while this court is considering this case, the ballots should include the name of petitioner Rahm Emanuel as a candidate for mayor of the City of Chicago,” the order said:

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[SoCalDem]

1. Residency requirements make sense..to a point.

How many mayoral candidates get tapped to serve a president in the white house?

Residency requirements are most likely in place to keep people from suburban towns from becoming "commuter-mayors", or to prevent someone from moving there (for the first time) just to run for an open mayoral position.

Had Rahm sold his house, bought one in DC and started voting in DC, I could see the uproar, but from the very earliest mentions of him, his name has always been linked to Chicago.

this whole things smells of some right wing appointed judges trying to "stir the pot".

[EV_Ares]

2. Yeah, you are right & they even said he could still vote but not run for the office? Rather strange

[EC]

3. How is what he did going to Washington different than a

construction worker going to another state for a long period to work on a project? Their "home" is still home. Even if he rented it out to keep it occupied while gone. Can't leave a house empty now a days, it's an invite for break-ins and stripping of pipes and other metals for scrap.

On edit: Chicago has even had manhole covers stolen for scrap, so there is no way a person should leave an empty house.