It’s Official: Illinois Supreme Court Rules Rahm Emanuel Is On Chicago Mayoral Ballot

by Frances Martel | 6:51 pm, January 27th, 2011

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After spending a few days as the Illinois judicial system’s hot potato du jour, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has finally, officially been allowed back on the ballot for mayor in Chicago. Emanuel’s place in the mayoral race had been in dispute since he moved back to Chicago to run, with the Illinois Appellate Court having ruled that his tenure as Chief of Staff in Washington, D.C. revoked his Chicago residency.

Emanuel’s (passionate, we imagine) argument to the Supreme Court on appeal apparently worked, as the Court arrived at the decision unanimously that he merited a place on the ballot. This permits Emanuel to remain on the top of the ballot, and to make the best of his current lead in the polls. While the appellate court concluded that there was no enough evidence that Emanuel had intended to live in Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Supreme Court found otherwise:

“This is a situation in which, not only did the candidate testify that his intent was not to abandon his Chicago residence, his acts fully support and confirm that intent. The candidate told several friends that he intended to serve as Chief of Staff for no more than 18 months or two years before returning to Chicago. The candidate has continued to own and pay property taxes on the Chicago residence while only renting in Washington, D.C.’’

The leases for the Washington and Chicago homes were written to coincide with the children’s school year, the justices argued. Also Emanuel kept an Illinois driver’s license — not one from Washington, D.C. — registered his car to the Chicago address, voted from that address in every election from 1999 to 2010, did his banking in Chicago, and had his Chicago address printed on his personal checks.

And the court noted that Emanuel “left many personal items’’ at the home, “ including his bed, two televisions, a stereo system, a piano, and over 100 boxes of personal Possessions.’’

Now that the odyssey to ensure his position on the ballot is over, it’s time to get campaigning: the candidates have a debate conveniently scheduled for tonight, to be broadcast on their local stations.

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Big Eddie

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skyfet

Now that’s a real wtf moment. Only in Chicago.
George Sore-ohs

Why even have the election. Just anoint him.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

To all the black voters in Chicago – REMEMBER THIS in 2012, when the President tells you how much Democrats care about inner-city black neighborhoods.

btw, How’s life been in those neighborhoods, nationwide, under Democratic rule for the past 50 years?

Have the Democrats lived up to their promises to you? Has your neighborhood improved in half-a-century under Democratic rule?
Carol West

NORBIT Jr. said:
To all the black voters in Chicago – REMEMBER THIS in 2012, when the President tells you how much Democrats care about inner-city black neighborhoods. btw, How’s life been in those neighborhoods, nationwide, under Democratic rule for the past 50 years? Have the Democrats lived up to their promises to you? Has your neighborhood improved in half-a-century under Democratic rule?

Have we had Democratic rule for 50 years. I must have slept through it all.
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

Racists!! They are just trying to keep the black woman out of office!
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Carol West said:
Have we had Democratic rule for 50 years. I must have slept through it all.

Inner-city areas have been almost exclusively controlled by Democratic majorities for that period of time.
skyfet

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
Racists!! They are just trying to keep the black woman out of office!

Not surprised you are playing the race card again. You and your type continue to do this to divide the people according to racial lines. I wonder the last time you saw a Black, Brown, Far easter person, considering you live in one of the whitest state in the country. Keep doing it, see if it makes you happy.
Big Eddie

skyfet said:
Far easter person, see

Peter Cottontail ?
Powerslave

Carol West said:
Have we had Democratic rule for 50 years. I must have slept through it all.

You must not live in Chicago. Republicans have been outlawed here a long time. But hey, we are the murder capital of the United States. At least we have that going for us (and we were soooooo close to getting the 2016 Olympics).
Judge Mental

The fix is in.
Socialist

NORBIT Jr. said:
To all the black voters in Chicago – REMEMBER THIS in 2012, when the President tells you how much Democrats care about inner-city black neighborhoods.

btw, How’s life been in those neighborhoods, nationwide, under Democratic rule for the past 50 years?

Have the Democrats lived up to their promises to you? Has your neighborhood improved in half-a-century under Democratic rule?

republicans aren’t going to change it either.. parties forget the poor…
Davo

Frances Martel says:

“Emanuel’s (passionate, we imagine) argument to the Supreme Court on appeal apparently worked, as the Court arrived at the decision unanimously that he merited a place on the ballot. ”

So, Frances, you forgot to tell us how many members of that unanimous Court AREN’T Democrats.
Arkansas Steve

Sorry Chicago. You lose.
ProObamaAgenda

lol….you wingnuts all had premature ejaculations a few days ago when you thought you won your bogus court case to keep rham off the ballot….CNN pundits were laughing up a storm……today they were having a spudnut moment and screaming WTF…..the Illinois Supreme Court ripped that lower court a new one in voiceing their opinion in this case…….YOU STUPID ASS REPUKES LOSE AGAIN……Keep hope alive dipshits, President Obama will give all of you a job scrubbing White House floors in his 2nd term…if you cant stoop that low he’ll hire you to just plant wet kisses on his narrow black ass for 4 years. There will be no President Palin,gulieani,pence,huckabuck,santorium,gingrich,angle,christie,barbour,bachman or demitted……see ya in 2016
ProObamaAgenda

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
Racists!! They are just trying to keep the black woman out of office!

lost site on 2012 huh wingnut???….just want to torment people now?…..youre just another worthless ass republican loser lowering your overinflated expectations…..i liked your other name “SEEING 2012 FROM MY JAIL CELL’ much better by the way
BFD

I don’t really care about Rahm or the mayor of Chicago but I don’t think someone should be penalized for serving his country.
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

Skyfet says:

I wonder the last time you saw a Black, Brown, Far easter person, considering you live in one of the whitest state in the country.

In fact, I see them everyday. My son’s friends hang out at our house on a daily basis and one is hispanic, one is asian, and one is from India. We’ve got a whole smorgasbord around here!
skyfet

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
Skyfet says:

I wonder the last time you saw a Black, Brown, Far easter person, considering you live in one of the whitest state in the country.

In fact, I see them everyday. My son’s friends hang out at our house on a daily basis and one is hispanic, one is asian, and one is from India. We’ve got a whole smorgasbord around here!

Do you race bait them like you do daily here on mediaite. Perhaps you are one of those who smile in their faces and them chat rubbish behind them. Perhaps your Son wouldn’t tolerate that kind of crap from you, so you control yourself. Because I’ve noticed that you can’t help yourself in differentiating and disecting and empharcising people’s race. I
skyfet

skyfet said:
Do you race bait them like you do daily here on mediaite. Perhaps you are one of those who smile in their faces and them chat rubbish behind them. Perhaps your Son wouldn’t tolerate that kind of crap from you, so you control yourself. Because I’ve noticed that you can’t help yourself in differentiating and dissecting and emphasizing people’s race. I don’t know what the race of Rahm’s opponent has to do with anything with the Court’s decision.
Judge Mental

ProObamaAgenda said:
lol….you wingnuts all had premature ejaculations a few days ago when you thought you won your bogus court case to keep rham off the ballot….YOU STUPID ASS REPUKES LOSE AGAIN

This isn’t about Republicans. All of the mayoral candidates are Democrats. But, nice try.
Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

Sky ignorantly says:

Do you race bait them like you do daily here on mediaite.

Well, I don’t do that here, so I reject your premise. What’s race-baiting to you is me mocking libs. Case in point, my first comment on this thread, it was Carol Mosley-Braun herself that brought it up. She’s was LIVID that Bill Clinton, the first black president, is campaigning for Rhambo.
Cher

Well aint it a wonder that Illinois who with many months to do it, was unsucessful getting ballots to it’s military for the 2010 elections, but yet, managed to pull this one off complete with unheard of swiftness from the state supreme court. Chicago not only deserves the politicians it has, it deserves every disrespectful joke.
X-3

The curse is back on: The Chicago Cubs will NEVER win the World Series again.
CAconservative

You get what you pay for, and more importantly, what you deserve.
Powerslave

ProObamaAgenda said:
lol….you wingnuts all had premature ejaculations a few days ago when you thought you won your bogus court case to keep rham off the ballot….CNN pundits were laughing up a storm……today they were having a spudnut moment and screaming WTF…..the Illinois Supreme Court ripped that lower court a new one in voiceing their opinion in this case…….YOU STUPID ASS REPUKES LOSE AGAIN……Keep hope alive dipshits, President Obama will give all of you a job scrubbing White House floors in his 2nd term…if you cant stoop that low he’ll hire you to just plant wet kisses on his narrow black ass for 4 years. There will be no President Palin,gulieani,pence,huckabuck,santorium,gingrich,angle,christie,barbour,bachman or demitted……see ya in 2016

Repukes don’t lose. Carol Mosely Braun loses you racist idiot.