Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Burris Turned Away   [Mark Hemingway]

The swearing in ceremony for the new Senate begins today at noon. However, there's still a number of unsettled questions. The Democratically controlled Senate has declined to seat Al Franken while the legal challenges are still being worked out.

But the biggest question remains Barack Obama's successor, Roland Burris. Despite Senate Majority Leader's threats to keep from seating him, he attempted to show up for the swearing-in ceremony and was turned away a few minutes ago.

What's more, NRO's man on the scene, David Freddoso reports that while Burris was briefly in the Capitol building before he was turned away some reporter shot a video of Burris with his cellphone and it is now floating around the Net. Unathorized filming in the Capitol is a srtictly verboten, and the reporter will likely face some sort of disciplinary charges for having done so. (If you've seen the video and know where to find it, e-mail me and I'll try and get it up on the Corner.)

Stay tuned, Freddoso should have more about the swearing-in circus later.

01/06 11:32 AMShare