Roland Burris and the U.S. Senate: A Replay of Marbury v. Madison?

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Roland Burris and the U.S. Senate: A Replay of Marbury v. Madison?
      

The "Is Roland Burris a Senator?" game has just taken a shocking turn toward the past. When turned away from the Senate chamber, the reasons given were that "his credentials were not in order" because his appointment by the Governor of Illinois had not been certified, as required by law, by the Secretary of State of Illinois.

This is not the first time that we have faced a major controversy based on the lingering legal question about whether or not Secretaries of State, when charged by law with certifying and delivering state appointments, have some discretion, even some constitutional duty, to intercept and prevent improper or questionable appointments to offices of public trust. We may be facing the most improbable of replays because this case is now looking like Marbury v. Madison all over again.
         

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