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Tom Geoghegan
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by Adam Doster
1:30pm
Tue Feb 16, 2010

Geoghenan On The Filibuster

While there are still a lot of obstacles blocking Senate procedural reforms, momentum is slowly building. Illinois' own Sen. Dick Durbin, for example, explicitly endorsed a filibuster reform proposal unveiled by Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) last week. On Amy Goodman's Democracy Now this morning, Chicago-based labor lawyer and author Tom Geoghegan explained the rationale behind the legislation and elaborated on his argument that the filibuster as currently employed violates the U.S. Constitution. Check out his appearance here.

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
5:01pm
Thu Sep 17, 2009
7 comments

Calls For A Special Senate Election Live On...

Senate vacancy

The controversy over Sen. Roland Burris' appointment to Illinois'
junior senate seat may seem like a lifetime ago. But a group of
well-known local attorneys is making a last-ditch effort to force Gov.
Pat Quinn to call  a special election, thus giving the public the final
...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
11:46am
Fri Aug 14, 2009

Geoghegan's Special Election Lawsuit Gets New Hearing

Senate vacancy

In yesterday's Tribune, columnist Steve Chapman pointed to
an astounding statistic: by the end of 2009, 27 percent of Americans
will be represented by U.S. senators who didn't earn a single vote in a
free election. That's because four of those 100 officials were
appointed ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
10:04am
Thu Mar 12, 2009
2 comments

Burris Dragged Into Special Election Case

Roland Burris

Despite their best efforts
to bury a proposal to call a special election to fill the U.S. Senate
seat vacated by Barack Obama, the failure to do so continues to haunt
Illinois’ Democratic Party leaders who now have a legal case with a high-profile defendant on their hands: ...