Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich holds a news conference outside a federal courthouse in Chicago on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. Blagojevich sued his home state Monday for booting him from the governor’s seat after his 2008 arrest for corruption and stripping him of his right to run for elective office in Illinois. Before filing the lawsuit, an unapologetic Blagojevich addressed reporters outside the same federal courthouse in Chicago where he was convicted, declaring: “I’m back.” He said he hasn’t decided, however, if he will seek to run for anything if he succeeds in eliminating the legal hurdles to doing so. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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