On June 26, a U.S. District Court in Illinois set out procedures for the special U.S. Senate election. The three qualified parties may choose a nominee by party committee. Every independent candidate who ends up certified for the November ballot in the regular U.S. Senate election is free to also run in the special U.S. Senate election. That is also true for the nominees of the unqualified parties that petitioned statewide this year, including the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party.
Illinois has a special U.S. Senate election because of an earlier 7th circuit opinion, which said that a gubernatorial appointee can only serve until the next regularly-scheduled statewide election. The last person who was elected to this seat was Barack Obama in 2004. He resigned from his seat after he was elected President in November 2008.
One more subversion of the Legislature of an alleged sovereign State of the Union.
Who needs any legislature when a Fed judge can dictate whatever ???
Any *emergency* appeals going on — even perhaps to the SCOTUS folks on a mere 3 month summer vacation (with their poor suffering clerks looking at a zillion pounds of paper and pdfs) ???