Detroit’s City Council needed a two-thirds vote — not a simple majority — to hold removal hearings on Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a law professor hired by the city’s Law Department argued today.
Robert Sedler, who teaches constitutional law at Wayne State University, pressed that argument as he announced he would file a lawsuit this morning in Wayne County Circuit Court in an effort to halt council’s effort to oust Kilpatrick.
Sedler cited Robert’s Rules of Order — the guide to parliamentary procedure that many governmental bodies use to establish protocols — to argue that a two-thirds vote is necessary, rather than the 5-4 vote taken by council last month to approve removal proceedings.
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