Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I have only one question: Is she up for retention? If so, it will be relatively easy to dump here.
The 30-day limit, Gamrath wrote, only applies more strictly to a “discrete event — one that stops and starts in a relatively short amount of time.
The COVID-19 pandemic, she wrote, “is not a discrete or isolated disaster. It is a dynamic pandemic, still ongoing.”
Whats going here? Is the judge suggesting that there is criteria for what can drive things past the 30 day limit? Who decides that? Been trying to understand what a lawful path may look like through this.
She’s injecting her policy preferences into the legal analysis through a fallacious argument. Disasters are rarely discrete events that stop and start in a relatively short amount of time. The way IEMA is written is to allow for the governor to act before the legislature can respond to events. Pritzker had his thirty days to convene a special session of the legislature, but now is abusing his powers to avoid having to work through the legislative process.
Wow…really appreciate that Yoz. Activist judge strikes again.
The Illinois Constitution says nothing about discrete events yet this crackpot judge found those words. She must be angling for the Reichminister of Justice job