The lawsuit challenges CFPB Acting Director Russel Vought’s refusal to request necessary funding from the Federal Reserve. The bureau’s action was based on a U.S. Department of Justice analysis that said money is taken from the Federal Reserve’s profits, which currently don’t exist. The suit argues Vought’s decision is contrary to congressional mandates and violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the U.S. Constitution.

State Rep. Bill Hauter, also a physician, says the most controversial change creates a new category of noncitizens eligible for Medicaid-style benefits. The bill allows asylum seekers and people from countries with documented human-rights abuses to qualify, an expansion he calls a “backdoor” increase in taxpayer-funded coverage as border encounters rise and many asylum claims are denied.

Plaintiffs represented by the Liberty Justice Center are asking the Illinois Supreme Court to hear a case challenging limits to where Illinoisans may challenge state law on the grounds they violate the Illinois Constitution. House Bill 3062 stops challenges from being made in local circuit courts, where the judges are elected by those state residents, and limits them to Springfield and Cook county courts, where residents of 100 Illinois counties have no say in electing those judges.

In addition, NEA’s disbursements for “contributions, gifts, and grants” included many self-proclaimed “progressive” organizations, including $ 1.8 million to For Our Future Action Fund, which claims to “build progressive power.”

The move comes as homeowners’ insurance rates are under fire from lawmakers following a series of rapid increases in the state, which providers have claimed are necessary to continue to operate.

In Illinois, Democrats have taken up the cudgel of compelled speech on the issue of abortion. Again, over objection that the law was unconstitutional, Democrats and Gov. JB Pritzker passed a law that said that all healthcare providers, including pro-life and religious pregnancy help centers, must extoll to their patients the “benefits” of abortion, even if they have faith-based objections to abortion.

About 100 current and former political figures had campaign funds on hand in the middle of 1998, when a state campaign finance law changed. Former Ald. Ed Burke stands to benefit the most, with more than $2.4 million he is allowed to pocket.