Comments on Advance Indiana™: Kansas Senator In Danger Of Getting Lugared

Paul, That is not what the AG's opinion said. ...

2014-02-10T09:17:47.306-05:00

Paul, That is not what the AG's opinion said. He expressly stated that your residence was frozen in place once you were elected to Congress regardless of whether you maintained a physical residence at that location. He took the view that you did not need to maintain a physical place of residence within the state once you were elected to Congress. He believed it was perfectly legal for Lugar to continue voting at the address he last resided before his election to the Senate. The Marion County Elections Board had issued an opinion decades earlier to that effect, which is one of the reasons the election board felt it had to make clear that was not the law. They were astonished to learn that Lugar had engineered that interpretation of the law decades earlier.

Lugar's bigger problem was always voter fraud....

2014-02-10T00:17:40.883-05:00

Lugar's bigger problem was always voter fraud. He was using someone else's house, a house he had sold decades earlier as his voting address, swearing under oath he lived there when he clearly did not. People try to claim the AG's opinions said it was okay to do this but in actually if you read them closely they didn't say that at all. They never said Lugar could abandon his residence and continue to vote using that residence. They were always very careful to not say that.

Paul, I don't think that "inhabitant&qu...

2014-02-09T16:59:24.083-05:00

Paul,
I don't think that "inhabitant" has been defined by law. When I was researching Lugar’s residency, I did not find a case that defined inhabitant.

Gary is correct in using the term "Lugared." I first saw it published in POLITICO.

The framers beleived the senators were to be liaso...

2014-02-09T15:27:28.011-05:00

The framers beleived the senators were to be liasons between state soverereign powers and the confederation. They have only been representatives of the people (directly) since 1913. If they honored their original assignment, and spent less time and money running for office,I would not care where they live. Repeal the 17th amendment

The Constitution says that a U.S. Senator has to b...

2014-02-09T14:41:25.052-05:00

The Constitution says that a U.S. Senator has to be an inhabitant of the state he or she represents.

obviously the ambassador to China should live in t...

2014-02-09T13:24:33.460-05:00

obviously the ambassador to China should live in the US...

Wouldn't a repeal of the XVII Amendment have t...

2014-02-09T13:23:40.962-05:00

Wouldn't a repeal of the XVII Amendment have the same effect?

You should be a resident to represent the people. ...

2014-02-09T08:31:09.168-05:00

You should be a resident to represent the people. Since the Constitution doesn't require it, perhaps an amendment is in order...it appears the framers forgot an important detail.