Thread: Illinois Appeals Court rules Rahm Emanuel can't be on the Chicago Mayoral ballot

Sorry for the long subject line.

Excerpt from the AP
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An Illinois appellate court on Monday threw former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel off the ballot for Chicago mayor because he didn't live in the city in the year before the election.

The decision put Emanuel's candidacy into doubt a month before the election. He had been considered the front-runner and had raised more money than any other candidate.

The court voted 2-1 to overturn a lower-court ruling that would have kept his name on the Feb. 22 ballot.

A lawyer for Emanuel says they plan to appeal the matter to the Illinois Supreme Court.

Those challenging Emanuel's candidacy have argued that the Democrat doesn't meet the one-year residency requirement because he rented out his Chicago home and moved his family to Washington to work for President Barack Obama for nearly two years.
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I thought the dissenting opinion was pretty interesting and lays out what Emanuel's appeals strategy will be.

*BONUS MATERIAL* You may or may not know, but everyone's favorite HBO Agent, Ari Gold (played by Jeremy Piven) is based on real life Hollywood agent, Ari Emanuel. The brother of Rahm Emanuel.