“Unfortunately, this legislation does not reflect the best interests of our nation at this moment in time. Our greatest security threats have no military solutions, and it is time our budget reflects that,” she said. “Instead of giving the Pentagon $45 billion it did not ask for, we should make the investments in health care, education, housing, public transit, and the environment that Americans deserve.”

The move appears to pave the way for Illinois Rep.-elect Bill Hauter to be sworn in before the spring session begins. Tazewell County Republican Party Chair Jim Rule said it’s important the party fill the seat before lawmakers consider changes to the criminal justice reform law known as the SAFE-T Act or other issues in early January.

See ours own Wirepoints commentary on this here.

Born in Gibson City, Bennett was a fifth-generation central Illinoisan who previously worked as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Champaign County. He was appointed to the senate seat previously held by Michael Frerichs after Frerichs was sworn in as Illinois State Treasurer in 2015. Bennett

“The votes to pass one have seemingly been there in both chambers, but the will of past Democratic leadership seemed to be to not overtly poke any big, cash-rich bears, like the National Rifle Association, or to alienate or electorally imperil conservative members of their Democratic caucuses.”

Lausch believes pretrial detentions have gone up given the severity of crimes they’re seeing. “You have a prosecutor, you have a defense lawyer and the judge and then a pretrial services officer who are evaluating, ‘Is this person a risk of flight or a danger to the community?’ If they are, we will seek pretrial detention. And if we meet certain standards, we need to show

Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski said while the impact may be only 0.01% of IMRF’s investments, the announcement is troubling. “We know that one of our pension funds is invested in this crypto-type investment so I think it begs the question, what about the rest of Illinois’ pension funds and is the risk managed and controlled. Every single pension fund should be answering that question and be transparent about it.”

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the fourth trailer-bill to the SAFE-T Act into law Dec. 6, clarifying the language on pretrial release, felonies for denying bail and creating a new grant program for public defenders. Pritzker said the 308-page amendment “addresses misinformation.”

“Once again, Illinois legislators have proven that nothing could be finer than a problem that is minor.”

But 15 months after Gov. JB Pritzker signed what was touted as the most equitable climate change-fighting law in the country, the job-training programs those initiatives were supposed to establish in the growing green economy still don’t exist; And not a single new ”equity” job has been created. That’s despite the promised job-creation efforts Pritzker’s state Department of Commerce