Judge quotes Dr. Seuss in tossing out Blagojevich lawsuit: "Will you please go now!"
Source: CBS/MSN
Story by Todd Feurer
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Three years after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban on him ever running for state or local office again, a federal judge issued a blistering ruling on Thursday, quoting Dr. Seuss in telling Blagojevich to simply "go away."
"Read generally Dr. Seuss, Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (1972) ('The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just Go. Go. GO! I don't care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Marvin K. Mooney, will you please go now!')," U.S. District Judge Steven Seeger wrote in his ruling throwing out Blagojevich's lawsuit.
Blagojevich served nearly eight years of a 14-year prison sentence on corruption charges before his sentence was commuted in February 2020 by then-President Donald Trump. Months later, he filed a federal lawsuit claiming his removal from office by the Illinois Senate following his 2009 impeachment trial was unconstitutional, and seeking to allow him to run for state or local elected office in Illinois.
"Blagojevich didn't have a graceful exit from public life. It was disgraceful. And by the look of things, it wasn't even an exit. Because Blagojevich wants back in the game, and back on center stage, microphone in hand," Seeger wrote. Seeger pulled no punches in ruling Blagojevich's lawsuit was "riddled with problems." "If the problems are fish in a barrel, the complaint contains an entire school of tuna. It is a target-rich environment. The complaint is an Issue-Spotting Wonderland," Seeger wrote.
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Just go away.
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How refreshing!
