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
Modernizes? A new digital clock in the hall.
Wouldn’t computerization result in FEWER employees and thus the elimination of ‘understaffing”? Isn’t that the point of computers? Maybe in the real world but not in the disgusting perverted universe of government work. Nationwide, Clerk of the Court offices have traditionally been one of the largest staffed offices in a county from ye olden days of manual filing. Politicians loved this political office because they had a batillion of “boots-on-the-ground” campaign workers built into the post allowing the Elected Clerk Of the Court to dole out staff to other politicians campaigns and then collect political IOU’s, favors and “chits” from… Read more »
If by modernize, they mean give ‘busy work’ jobs to clerks that used to handle in-person filings, then yes. However, the website is still only partially operational from the August breach, and lawyer friends I have tell me that it’s impossible to download copies of orders from internet, something that most other court systems have been doing for a decade, or like in federal court, nearly two decades…