With all the kerfluffle about new senators replacing ones who will be working for the White House, there's an interesting column by a lawyer from Illinois of all places.
He points out that the Constitution makes the reasonable demand that Senate vacancies be replaced by special election and not by gubernatorial appointment. Sadly, governors, like all people, like power, and so they have weaseled ways to continue appointing people. But erzatz senator Burris' claim that his appointment is legal is not quite as unassailable as I would have thought.
That said, I want this whole distraction to go away. Appoint several jackasses to be in the Senate and lose their reelection primaries in 2 years. Too bad the governors of Delaware, New York, Colorado and Illinois couldn't just have the election now. But that would mean giving up some power.
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