After weeks of flip-flopping, Senate Democrats announced today that they’d let Roland Burris be seated as Barack Obama’s replacement in the Senate. Burris could take his seat this week now that Senate lawyers reviewed new paperwork he filed to become Illinois’ junior senator....
...Senate rules apparently were meant to be broken (or at least flexible.) On Friday, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously rejected Burris' claim that, under the law, White was required to certify his appointment.
Then White reaffirmed his decision not to sign off on the appointment, though he agreed to send Burris a signed certificate attesting that Blagojevich’s appointment letter is a "true and accurate copy" of what was registered by the secretary of state.
And that was close enough for Reid. Of course, it took him a while to get there.
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