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It was required that, in order to qualify for the ballot, the measure be approved by 60% approval of both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The amendment had been proposed by state representative Jack D. Franks and state senator Daniel Cronin. [1]
In the November 2010 general election, Illinois passed a referendum to amend the state constitution to allow a recall of the state's governor, in light of former Governor Rod Blagojevich's corruption scandal. In the other eleven states that permit statewide recall, no grounds are required and recall petitions may be circulated for any reason.
The most recent impeachment of a state governor occurred on January 14, 2009, when the Illinois House of Representatives voted 117–1 to impeach Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges; [194] he was subsequently removed from office and barred from holding future office by the Illinois Senate on January 29.
3.1 State Senate. 3.2 State House of ... Illinois Governor Recall Amendment (2010) ... Democrats flipped control of the Illinois House of Representatives, which had ...
The State of Illinois, specifically Chicago, has a robust model. [according to whom?] Chicago's contingencies of student judges are the largest in the country. Illinois law [12] provided that students meet the following criteria to serve as Election Judges: Be a high school junior or senior in good standing;
A member of the United States Senate can resign by writing a letter of resignation to the governor of the state that the senator represents. [1] Under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, and under the Seventeenth Amendment, in case of a vacancy in the Senate resulting from resignation, the executive authority of the state (today known in every state as the governor ...
He was the only Illinois governor to be impeached by the state House of Representatives and removed from office by the state Senate. In 2011 Blagojevich was found guilty of 18 counts of corruption, including attempting to sell or trade an appointment to fill Barack Obama's vacant seat in the U.S. Senate.
The Illinois General Assembly is the state legislature, composed of the 118-member Illinois House of Representatives and the 59-member Illinois Senate. Representatives elect from their chamber a Speaker and Speaker pro tempore, and senators elect from the chamber a President of the Senate.