Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached Friday by Illinois lawmakers furious that he turned state government into a "freak show," setting the stage for an unprecedented trial in the state Senate that ...

After being impeached Friday, Gov. Rod Blagojevich now faces an uphill battle in the Illinois Senate trial that will determine whether he stays in office or gets ousted. The Illinois House ...

Rod R. Blagojevich and send him to trial ... The House is scheduled to revote its impeachment of Blagojevich on Wednesday as a technical matter when the new General Assembly is sworn in, to ...

The impeachment trial of Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich begins Monday in the Illinois Senate. He's already been impeached by the state House for his alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama ...

“We stand here today because of the perfidy of one man: Rod Blagojevich,” said Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, a Democrat who chaired a special impeachment committee. “To overturn the results of ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, himself impeached and now serving a 14-year term in federal prison for corruption, said in a new op-ed that today's House Democrats would have impeached ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Members of the special Illinois House panel weighing the impeachment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday appeared to disregard his criminal attorney's rationale for keeping the ...

Rod Blagojevich. Then, the impeachment process began with Blagojevich and his team denying any wrongdoing or “quid pro quo,” labeling the proceedings a “witch hunt,” and citing a lack of ...

2009-01-09T13:41:56-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2e3/283250-m.jpgThe Illinois House of Representatives debated articles of impeachment for Governor Rod ...

With the Illinois Supreme Court rejecting an effort to oust Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a legislative panel considering impeachment prepared to examine whether he abused his power, despite challenges ...

Rod Blagojevich rang in the new year by penning an editorial for a conservative website arguing that current House Democrats who have impeached President Donald Trump also would have tried to ...

Rod Blagojevich that could have opened the door ... despite having been impeached, and imprisoned. In 2021, Blagojevich filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois alleging that it was ...