Northwestern Law professor and politician, Dawn Clark Netsch, joins John Williams to talk about the news regarding Rahm Emanuel's residency. 01-24-11
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I am glad that you read the opinion. I am not an attorney nor a politician and can tell you that all of this rolls into three different issues. Voter Qualification permits "business of the government" but the candidate qualification requires both a qualified voter and 1-year resident. The third issue is temporary absence which appears only to keep an elected official as a resident but even that is under severe restrictions.
The facts of this have been clear since Day 1 and I cannot figure out why all the legal "experts" could not read it. It is particularly disturbing that Dawn Netsch is a law professor, an attorney and a politician yet could not know to take the entire body of law into consideration.
As to the latitude of the law, there is none. The best means of determining the Legislative Intent of the law is the clear language of the law itself. None of the "What If" comments have any relativity.