I already read post 13 before I posted my last comment. The constitution doesn’t say that the governor may appoint a replacement for the current term, only. We’ll agree to disagree.
Well, Auh2o is a lawyer and not to stoke his ego but I think he’s one of the smartest dudes around here when it comes to matters like this, and you, well you thought Pat Quinn would be reelected with a ridiculously implausible 53% of the vote (IIRC you based this an imaginary mathematical link with the % of the vote Obama got for President in 2012) and that we should nominate that idiot loser ice cream man for Senate even though you acknowledged he couldn’t win, which was also ridiculous. So I would tend to think Auh2o is right.
Dead, alive or zombie, Judy’s current term will EXPIRE in January. The new term hasn’t started yet and thus cannot be vacant until Judy doesn’t show up to get sworn in. That is common sense.
Now if Quinn wants to be a prick and say he can appoint someone to a term that hasn’t started yet and some a$$hole dem judge decides to rule that is the case (which might happen even though that’s a ridiculous application of the law) that judge would be extremely wrong and I have to have enough faith in the judicial system that couldn’t stand up to appeal.
My opinion of what will happen, Quinn decides not to hurt his party by looking like a ****ing thug dictator and won’t assert your absurd interpretation of the law, he will appoint a rat to serve the rest of the term which is going to expire, after it and Quinn’s terms simultaneously expire Rauner will appoint some RINO, either the Topinka COS or Tom Cross (who was robbed of the Treasurer’s office in a fraudulent count of late ballots from crook county), to the new term, the legislature will pass a law setting a special election for 2016, the rats deciding to let the RINO have an extra year in office for the trade off of having a better chance of winning in the office in POTUS turnout in 2016 rather than in 2015, Rauner will sign the bill.
A RINO will win the Republican primary for the special election, freepers will refuse to support that person and the democrat will win the remaining 2 plus years of the term with under 50% of the vote with the margin of victory going to a losertarian. The dem winner will probably be that fugly Simon daughter whom Judy beat.
Judy, God rest her soul, looked like a cross between a bag lady and a parakeet, but Simon Jr., shudder, well at least we can say Mrs. Simon was a loyal wife, ain’t no doubt about paternity there. If not for her alleged female anatomy I’d think the Simons were involved in some cutting edge cloning project.
The succession is foremost in my mind and was after the 5 seconds it took me to get over the initial shock, but I would to say about Judy, yes she was a liberal RINO but you know what? I think that was out of stupidity rather than maliciousness. May she rest in peace and may God bless her soul. And may God damn the democrapic party and everyone who supports them. Amen.