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US court will hear Rahm Emanuel appeal

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

JANUARY 26, 2011 02:26

Illinois' highest court agreed Tuesday to decide whether former Obama chief aide Rahm Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor, and justices ordered election officials not to print any ballots without his name until they rule on the case.

The action bought valuable time for the former White House chief of staff, who a day earlier was kicked off the ballot by an appeals court. The state Supreme Court said it would expedite the matter but gave no specific time frame.

But with less than a week to go before the first early ballots are cast, a number of potential scenarios loomed, including the possibility that Emanuel would have to resort to a write-in campaign or wage a desperate bid to take the matter to federal court.

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