{"id":8414,"date":"2011-01-25T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2011-01-25T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T06:12:12","slug":"rahm-emanuel%e2%80%99s-mayoral-race-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8414\/rahm-emanuel%e2%80%99s-mayoral-race-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Emanuel\u2019s Mayoral Race &#038; the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for textualism rang out when an Illinois state appellate court ruled former Obama White House Chief of Staff <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/01\/24\/breaking-appellate-court-rules-against-emanuel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rahm Emanuel ineligible to run for mayor of Chicago<\/a>.\u00a0 CFIF previously highlighted Emanuel\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8044\/rahm-emanuel%E2%80%99s-residency-problem-poses-a-serious-question-about-the-rule-of-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">dubious residency claims<\/a>.\u00a0 Then, it was obvious Emanuel did not meet the 1 year Chicago residency requirement because he had been living in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Tellingly, no one disputes this now.\u00a0 Instead, Emanuel\u2019s defenders (including the Chicago Board of Elections) support the theory that a candidate\u2019s intent to return should be read-in (i.e. judicially legislated) as an exception to the residency requirement.\u00a0 The state appeals court had none of it.\u00a0 In a straightforward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2011\/1stDistrict\/January\/1110033.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">opinion<\/a>, a 2-1 majority ruled for textual integrity and struck Emanuel\u2019s name from the ballot.\u00a0 Of course, he\u2019s appealing it to the state supreme court, but that shouldn\u2019t deter that body from applying the same plain meaning of the statute to his situation.<\/p>\n<p>No one is saying that Rahm Emanuel can never run for mayor of Chicago, just that he must comply with the legal standards for assuming the office.\u00a0 If that\u2019s too much to ask of Rahm, then maybe it would be too much to expect a faithful application of other laws once he\u2019s in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cheers for textualism rang out when an Illinois state appellate court ruled former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel ineligible to run for mayor of Chicago.\u00a0 CFIF previously highlighted Emanuel\u2019s dubious residency claims.\u00a0 Then, it was obvious Emanuel did not meet the 1 year Chicago residency requirement because he had been living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,2026,2331,764,1161,181,2332,44],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-chicago","tag-election","tag-integrity","tag-judicial-activism","tag-judicial-restraint","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-textualism","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8417,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}