Gov. Rod Blagojevich's historic impeachment trial began Monday without its defiant defendant, who was away in New York doing media interviews arguing he couldn't get a fair hearing before the Illinois state Senate.
At the start of the trial, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald asked whether Blagojevich was present and a long silence followed. The chief justice then ordered the proceedings to begin as if Blagojevich had entered a plea of not guilty.
"This is a solemn and serious business we're about to engage in," Fitzgerald told the Senate chambers.
Blagojevich, meanwhile, was hundreds of miles away in New York, where …
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