Article I, Section 6 of the US Constitution:
“They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.”
I thought that protection only applied to Kennedys.
That means that Walsh isn’t subject to “civil arrest,” not that he can’t be sued or ordered to pay back child support.
We’ve known that Walsh is a deadbeat for like 18 months now (soon after he won the February 2010 primary it came out that he and his campaign owed people money left and right, and the IL GOP tried tp get him to stand down so he could be replaced by a non-deadbeat. It was certainly Walsh’s right to stay in the race, and to his credit he struck a chord with voters and rode the GOP wave to an upset victory over Melissa Bean, but he really should have paid his debts, particularly the back child support he owes his kids. Walsh is a strong voice in favor of reducing the federal debt, but if his personal debt is as out of control as the federal government’s then all his insights and eloquence will be for naught.