January 9, 2009

BLAGOJEVICH IMPEACHED!

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat.
Impeachment required just 60 votes. The final result was 114-1.
Legislators accused the second-term Democratic governor [...]

January 9, 2009

Blagojevich lawyers want US attorney Fitzgerald off the case.

Blago shoehorns Burris in….says, Fitz OUT!
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s defense attorneys have asked a federal judge to throw U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and all his assistants off the fraud and bribery case against him.
Chief defense counsel Edward Genson said in a motion Thursday that the news conference Fitzgerald held in announcing the charges [...]