Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Illinois. Rahm is requesting that the courts overturn a ruling that booted him off the ballot for Chicago mayor.
Emanuel's lawyers filed the appeal with the state's highest court on Tuesday (one day after an appeals court rejected his qualification) because Rahm was not a resident of Chicago for at least one year before the election.
One St. Louis corporate lawyer said that the outcome could take an interesting precedent and will yield a significant turn of events.
In the appeal, Rahm's commercial lawyer call the appeals court decision "one of the most far-reaching election law rulings ever" issued by a court in Illinois. They added that the ruling imposes "a new, significant limitation" on ballot access.
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