The Appellate Court took Rahm Emanuel Off the Ballot... But there's Hope

Somebody won't let one of the sexy men in politics be great. Today, Rahm was taken off the ballot for Chicago's Mayor race.

Rahm Emanuel has been knocked off the mayoral ballot after an Illinois appellate court panel overturned a ruling in his residency case. 


The panel ruled that Emanuel did not meet the residency requirement for eligible candidates.
“We conclude that the candidate neither meets the the municipal code’s requirement that he have ‘resided’ in Chicago for the year preceding the election in which he seeks to participate nor falls within any exception to the requirement,” the court wrote in its decision.

Emanuel sounded a confident note when he addressed reporters around 1:30 p.m. at a Loop restaurant.
“I have no doubt that we will, in the end, prevail at this effort,” Emanuel said. “As my father always used to say, ‘Nothing is ever easy in life.’ Nothing is ever easy. This is just one turn in the road.”

But there may be so hope for my boo.

A prominent Illinois election lawyer who asked to remain anonymous because of his many political clients in Chicago, told the Huffington Post that there may be hope for Emanuel yet.

The Illinois Supreme Court, he said, "would certainly give the Appellate Court respect but I wouldn't say that they are constrained from reversing their decision."

That said, Monday's two-to-one ruling throwing Emanuel's name off the Chicago mayoral ballot was a major legal set back that dramatically complicated the former White House chief of staff's run for the post. Rather than seek a rehearing with the appellate court, the Illinois lawyer said he expected the Emanuel campaign to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court either Wednesday or as early as Tuesday. The Court will likely choose to take the case before the week was over.

"This is a matter of serious importance affecting essentially half of the state of Illinois just because of the population and impact of the economy," the lawyer said. "So you can expect the Supreme Court will act very quickly. The parties will simply recycle their briefs responding to the appellate court opinion."

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