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Lightfoot, who hit the headlines earlier this week for refusing to do one-on-one interviews with white journalists, said: ‘Getting a vote of no confidence from that guy is a badge of honor, and I accept it.”
The task force report noted, “that despite Chief Justice Marshall’s legacy as one of the nation’s most significant U.S. Supreme Court justices, the newly discovered research regarding his role as a slave trader, slave owner of hundreds of slaves, pro-slavery jurisprudence, and racist views render him a highly inappropriate namesake for the Law School.”
Comment: This amendment would go much further than banning right-to-work. See our Quickpoint on that here.
After sitting empty for 18 years, a huge former Motorola factory in Harvard could become something that doesn’t exist in Illinois today: a big digital hub and warehouse fueled by the sun. A Canadian venture has agreed to buy the 325-acre campus in the McHenry County town, with plans to convert it into a solar-powered data center.
“Why does the mayor of Chicago think that it’s all right for her to announce that she won’t talk with journalists who are the wrong skin color? Well, I’m afraid that one of the many bad results of the Supreme Court’s penchant in the past for carving out exceptions to the laws against racial discrimination has been that — no matter how much the Court thinks it has qualified and limited those exceptions — it is assumed by most people that they are much broader than they are.”
Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard accused Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday of harboring anti-White racism and called for her to step down over her remarks this week about the city’s media landscape.
In a classic off-hours news dump, Illinois legislative Democrats late Friday released their proposal as to how to reapportion state Senate and House districts for the first time in a decade.
Though Republicans instantly howled, the Democrats gave every indication of enacting the map as soon as next week, scheduling a series of formal hearings next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 25 and 26.
I truly don’t get this, as a matter of politics and policy.
As reported by Center Square, both the Illinois Senate and House are advancing resolutions that would put a constitutional amendment in front of voters to lock in union power. The amendment, if passed by three-fifths votes in each chamber and approved by voters, would prohibit municipalities and the state from ever taking any measure that would impair the ability of workers to collectively bargain over wages, hours, terms and conditions.
In other words, it would constitutionally ban any attempt to reform collective bargaining rules for
Remember when Gov. JB Pritzker warned of drastic tax increases or spending cuts if his proposed “fair tax” increase were to be defeated last November? And Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton said that all residents of the state could see an income tax hike of at least 20% if the fair tax went down?
Well, the tax went down in flames. And yet none of what they warned about happened.
Now lawmakers are at it again. Illinois House Majority Leader Greg Harris (D-Chicago) said Thursday, “If we do have to cut $1.3 billion. I
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