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
Lori has bigger problems than Covid. A member of the police command staff may be involved in drug distribution. I don’t know if that’s a big deal when council members are running suburban dope empires from their council seats.
Simple, band together and give her a date to end the mandates. She will have two choices, she will capitulate and announce the end of mandates to make it look like she made the decision or she will refuse. If she refuses, the group then has a press conference to unilaterally end the mandates and then defy the restrictions and force her to make a move.
Maybe they should have pushed back on the mandates when they had the chance.
Chicago has effed itself.
Hey Lori people are dying of illegal fentanyl overdose thanks to no border and murder thanks to Lil Kim, at a rate that dwarfs Covid, maybe you should look into that first. Earth to Lori, the pandemic is over.
What does a ruling class look like that has zero risk of not winning elections against the other party?
If you want certainty and your business to thrive then move to Indiana. Simple as that.
Lori, if you really earned your access to the partnership at Mayer Brown, you would end this nonsense now… That would imply you understand, a bit, risk and reward, and a bit of entrepreneurship. If, on the other hand, your rise was as a result, shall we say certain “checkboxes”, then your behaviour, though wrong, makes perfect sense.