Illinois Governor Corruption Scandal, Roland Burris | featured news

Even in a Senate club famous for how it ostracizes the unwanted, the shunning of Democratic Sen. Roland Burris is unprecedented.

A federal judge in Chicago said today that the Senate ethics committee can review tapes of secretly recorded conversations between Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) and the brother of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D), who was removed from office earlier this year amid a corruption investigation.

Illinois Sen. Roland Burris claims he did not pay the $10,000 requested by former Gov. Blagojevich's brother.

The Illinois Senate designee is getting a warmer reception than he received last week when he was turned out of the Senate.

Roland Burris, the Illinois Democrat who has been fighting for two weeks to join the Senate, says Vice President Dick Cheney will swear him in Thursday at 2 p.m. ET on the Senate floor. Thus will end -- at least...