{"id":8484,"date":"2011-01-28T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2011-01-28T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T17:09:22","slug":"rahm-1-rule-of-law-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8484\/rahm-1-rule-of-law-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm 1, Rule of Law, 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so it is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/elections\/ct-met-chicago-mayor-race-0128-rahm-20110127,0,5327749.story\" target=\"_blank\">Rahm Emanuel is back on the ballot<\/a> for Chicago mayor.\u00a0 In a not unsurprising ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned an appellate court\u2019s decision to remove Emanuel\u2019s name since he didn\u2019t physically reside in the city for the year prior to next month\u2019s election.\u00a0 You (and everyone else reading this blog) may remember Emanuel was President Barack Obama\u2019s White House Chief of Staff during that time.<\/p>\n<p>No matter.\u00a0 Saying that the appellate court\u2019s commonsensical application of law to facts had \u201cno basis in Illinois law\u201d the state supremes ruled 7-0 in favor of judicial activism.\u00a0 Nowhere in the relevant statute does it mention an \u201cintent to return\u201d exception to the residency requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind, though.\u00a0 The \u201cpeople\u201d of Chicago support Emanuel\u2019s candidacy by over 50%, meaning he\u2019s likely to avoid a run-off and win outright next month.\u00a0 In the event Emanuel does become the Second City\u2019s next mayor, don\u2019t be surprised if his conception of the rule of the law involves whatever interpretation serves him at the moment.\u00a0 After all the &#8220;people\u201d will have gotten the leadership they deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it is that Rahm Emanuel is back on the ballot for Chicago mayor.\u00a0 In a not unsurprising ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned an appellate court\u2019s decision to remove Emanuel\u2019s name since he didn\u2019t physically reside in the city for the year prior to next month\u2019s election.\u00a0 You (and everyone else reading this [&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":[143,1315,2026,2349,2346,2347,181,2348],"class_list":["post-8484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-chicago-politics","tag-election","tag-illinois-supreme-court","tag-mayor","tag-qualification","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-residency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484","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=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8488,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}