Comment: We’ve said the same thing repeatedly and we will keep saying it: “The sooner states act on pension reform, the fewer promises will be broken.”

Comment. Truly astonishing. “This nominee, given his temperament and attitude, and so many clues as to his misogyny, would never have received my vote to an associate judge in McLean County or the surrounding counties in our circuit,” wrote Justice James Knecht. “So many clues as to his misogyny”? Not fit for an IL court in McLean County because of temperament, despite hundreds of US appellate cases decided with nothing but rave reviews about temperament?

…the confidence established by his party’s conduct in the confirmation process.

“Democracy is dead in Illinois.” Nowlan is a former Illinois legislator, agency director, senior aide to three unindicted governors, campaign manager for U.S. Senate and presidential candidates, and professor of government at several universities in Illinois as well as China.