Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon guest on AM560 with Chris Krok discussing CTU lawsuit agains Illinois Policy and more
August 19, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
The Safe T Act applied to how employers will now hire people in Illinois.
Spot on!
This is just a subsidy to the plaintiffs’ employment bar: the lawyers who make money off suing employers for using their own judgment to hire/ fire based on what they know works in their own workplaces. This is not about discrimination, this is about putting government power, wielded by plaintiff lawyers, behind the eternal grievance class. Does it seem like a bad idea to hire an accounting clerk who has a prior conviction for embezzlement? But maybe it was ten years ago and the person claims to have reformed. Should it be illegal to have a system that takes that… Read more »
And more jobs for otherwise-unemployable consultants.
Lawyers will be lining up to file suits as soon as this bill is signed into law.
Illinois is SO progressive – employers BEWARE!
Illinois Political Animals: Driving businesses to other, better managed states with dumb regulations and outrageous taxes.
Illinois elects its dumbest and the ‘disparate effect’ their idiocy has on the populace is borderline criminal.
Anyone familiar with Illinois politics may wonder if a law covering this grey area could be applied inconsistently. It seems as if this bill will likely encourage more employers to choose another state if they can’t hire the best candidate for THEIR company without pushback from a legislature that couldn’t run their own company if they tried. (Look at IL debt and pension mess. for starters.) Ridiculous overreach when rules about discrimination already exist.