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A Just Cause: The Impeachment and Removal of Governor Rod Blagojevich

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During the predawn hours of December 9, 2008, an FBI team swarmed the house of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and took him away in handcuffs. The shocking arrest, in accordance with allegations of corruption and extortion, launched a chain of political events never before seen in Illinois. In A Just Cause, Bernard H. Sieracki delivers a dynamic firsthand account of this eight-week political crisis, beginning with Blagojevich’s arrest, continuing through his impeachment and trial, and culminating in his conviction and removal from administrative center. Drawing on his own eyewitness observations of the hearings and trial, the comments of interviewees, trial transcripts, and knowledge gained from decades of work with the Illinois legislature, Sieracki tells the compelling story of the first impeachment and removal from administrative center of an Illinois governor, at the same time as providing a close take a look at the people involved.

A Just Cause depicts Blagojevich as a master of political gamesmanship, a circus ringmaster driven by personal ambition and obsessed with private gain. Sieracki examines in depth the governor’s unethical behavior at the same time as in administrative center, detailing a litany of partisan and personal hostilities that spanned years. He thoroughly covers the events leading to Blagojevich’s downfall and the reactions of the governor’s cohorts. The creator discusses the a large number of allegations against Blagojevich, including attempts to “sell” appointments, jobs, and contracts in exchange for financial contributions. Sieracki then exhaustively recounts Blagojevich’s senate trial and the governor’s removal from administrative center.

This engrossing volume is both a richly detailed case study of the American checks-and-balances system and an eyewitness account of unprecedented events. It’ll appeal to somebody interested within the stunning, true tale of a state upholding the maxim “The welfare of the people is the supreme law.” 

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