The Daily Background
| Blagojevich expects to be removed from office
Filed at 8:09 am, Tuesday January 27th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Blagojevich didn’t bother to show up for the first day of the Illinois state senate trial, so I guess we all know what that means:
Mr. Blagojevich, 52 and in his second term, had clearly given up whatever hopes he had of persuading the State Senate not to remove him, legal and political analysts said, and was looking ahead to tell his own story to potential jurors in federal court.
A two-thirds majority vote in the Senate is required to formally remove him from office, and I guess this means the governor expects to get that two-thirds vote.
