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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Blagojevich selected Burris knowing that he was one of the few candidates who would accept the nomination from an allegedly corrupt governor. We are therefore thankful that Illinois’ secretary of state could block the nomination in his refusal to certify it. While the secretary should not have veto power over gubernatorial appointments under normal circumstances, this situation seems extraordinary enough to warrant this check on the Governor. We hope that the Supreme Court of Illinois will intervene to clarify conditions under which such intervention may be legal. We recognize the need for this situation to be resolved...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Much Ado About Illinois | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...Perhaps. But the government still appoints regional prefects, and they wield veto power over how municipalities apply new laws. Sarkozy and Sunday-minded shop owners could yet have the last laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunday Shopping? France Says Non | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...limit our ability to enforce the law, you know, not once, not twice, but I think 17 times. Those were some difficult days, not just for EPA, but I think for the entire country. And thankfully, we had a Vice President who said no, who was prepared to veto bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy Czar: Carol Browner | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...that the Senate version requires the Big Three to meet only federal fuel-efficiency standards and not stricter regulations like those in her native California. Her bill requires the Big Three to meet all "applicable" standards, which would include state ones - a provision the White House has threatened to veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Bailout Blowout? Why the Auto Deal May Crash | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...says Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman who now heads the political-science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Impeachment hearings would take a long time - months - and the call for a special election needs his signature, which the legislature would then have to override his veto. It's not a quick process." And given his pugnacious history, the governor could fight until the bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the House of Blagojevich | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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