Schock's lawyers to press Supreme Court to take up his case

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The legal team for former Republican Rep. Aaron Schock (Ill.) is petitioning the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision to throw out his indictment.

The filing, submitted on Monday evening, comes before a scheduled hearing on Friday in which the U.S. District Court in the Central District of Illinois, Urbana Division, will determine how it wants to move forward with the case.

The former Illinois lawmaker stepped down from Congress in 2015 following a firestorm over allegedly spending government funds for personal use. In 2016, the federal government indicted Schock on 24 counts including wire fraud, theft of government funds and making false statements.


Full Article: http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/395279-schocks-lawyers-press-supreme-court-to-take-up-his-case



Note: The first paragraph is bad reporting/writing. His indictments have not been thrown out so he is asking the Supreme Court to toss them.

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1. poorly written and nobody edited this

I know this isn't you, but The Hill... but it should read "is petitioning the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision to NOT throw out his indictment.

Further down

"Schock’s lawyers at McGuireWoods had attempted to toss the indictment, saying that the government violated the Speech or Debate Clause of the. Constitution"