So what's going to happen on Tuesday? Will Illinois seat two senators or will only Sen. Dick Durbin take the oath of office?
Roland Burris, a former Illinois attorney general, is planning on being in Washington on Tuesday to claim the seat that he was named to by Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week.
So the question is - will the Senate Democrats, who wield political correctness like a weapon, have the brass to refuse to seat a black man who was legally appointed by a disgraced governor? Is this something the Senate can Constitutionally do?
And is this something Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wants to face after he pressured the governor on who to appoint to the Senate seat. According to a Friday article in the Chicago Sun Times, Reid pressed for Blago to not name Rep. Jesse Jackon Jr., Danny Davis, or state Sen. Emil Jones to be appointed for fear the Democrats would lose that seat to the Republicans come the next election.
Just prior to the arrest of Blago, the Sun Times reports that Blagojevich spokesman Lucio Guerrero confirmed that Reid and U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) — the new chief of the Senate Democratic political operation — each called Blagojevich’s campaign office separately Dec. 3.
It's a tangled web in Illinois politics right now. Tuesday will be an interesting day to watch.
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