"Innocent until Proven Guilty."
The very people that would play political football with Senator-Select Burris's nomination, like Mary Brigid Kenney, are participating in a public lynching of a qualified U. S. Senator without abiding by her own rules.
Mary Brigid Kenney resigned after Roland Burris ignored her plea that he was prosecuting an innocent man. (Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times, AP
The U. S. Senate was correct in that they need complete paperwork to seat the Senator-Select and to date that has yet to be forthcoming. Either one abides by the rules of one doesn't.
Ms. Kennedy would like to 'cite' ethics as an issue and poor judgement on Burris and somehow intertwine some wrongful decision making by Burris decades ago as a very good analogy to the circumstances today.
Huh?
...Ultimately, Cruz was acquitted. By then, DNA evidence linked Brian Dugan to the murder. Dugan, who is serving a life sentence for two other similar murders, is now awaiting trial in that case....
Evidently, after DUE PROCESS occurred Ms. Kennedy's defendant was found innocent. I'll be darn, the process actually works.
What that has to do with any of the issues regarding this Senator-Select candidate and the Illinios Governor is beyond comprehension.
Ms. Kennedy, with a recognizable name, is a prime example of the lynch mob attitude surrounding the 'complaint' by Patrick Fitzgerald against Gov. Rod Blagojevich. She would like all of us to understand her superior intellect in citing an innocent person that was prosecuted. IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME !!!!
There are rules to be followed in every venue regarding these circumstances. The judge overseeing the complaint by Mr. Burris regarding the insubordination of the Secretary of State of Illinois needs to rule so that it can be moved to the US Supreme Court. There is no way that a Secretary of State should have veto power over a freely elected Governor still legally in office. It's an outrageous reality to consider and perhaps when the interpretation by the US Supreme Court convenes the 'Secretary of State' requirement will be removed completely.
Mr. Burris is taking the only reasonable path to his seat at the US Senate and there are greater ethics at play here. The ethics that demand the people of the State of Illinois be represented at the US Senate as soon as possible. The delay is silly. If the signature of the Secretary of State of any state is not a Constitutional requirement than it should be rescinded. Absolutely.
Roland Burris is perfectly qualified and there is absolutely no question he is above reproach.
INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY. That is the law of the land as opposed to the laws of Great Britain where one is guilty until proven innocent. There is a reason for all that and Ms. Kennedy should be ashamed of herself in attempting to indicate that the laws of our country don't matter in light of her past success in proving her client's innocence.
It is amazing the degree of hubris that exists in Illinois at all levels of society with the election of their Senator to the Presidency. Ms. Kennedy is wrong and she owes the US Constitution an apology.
