Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
“…Democrats who control the Legislature approved legislation in January 2021 that erased a system they argue unjustly punishes the poor and disproportionately puts more Black people in jail.” The E in SAFE-T means Equity. Equity, according to every article I’ve seen, and every legislator who voted for the new law, means putting less Black people in jail. It doesn’t matter if they’re guilty as sin, or if they will ultimately go to prison, or if they skip subsequent court appearance. It’s about dismantling the systemically racist criminal justice system that puts more Black people in jail. And that’s the SAFE-T… Read more »