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
Hey Brooks, you want change? I’ll give you change: Keep people caught committing a felony in jail until trial. Hold the CTU accountable for not educating students. Tell lifelong welfare recipients to go get jobs. Make parents accountable for the whereabouts and actions of their minor children. Have those with several children by several different women step up and become a responsible person. It’s a good start.
In America, you can’t hold people in jail until trial based just on an accusation.
Just spit balling, but I suspect Indiana is referring to the the Safe-T Act where even previously convicted violent offenders are rarely kept in custody for repeated violent acts. There is a balance of public safety vs rights of the accused where a judge considers bail options. This of course has been largely eliminated frequently jeopardizing public safety for the latter.
Yes, perhaps I unfairly focused on his simplified wording of it.