Column: Are prisoner board appointments too hot to handle? – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: "Under the rules, the governor can make nominations and then withdraw them. Every time he makes a nomination, it starts a 60-session-day clock for Senate confirmation. That’s 60 legislative 'session days,' not 60 days. That means the clock must follow the session calendar, of legislature, which often goes months at a time without meeting. That flexibility allows Pritzker, like governors before him, to make appointments, withdraw appointments and then re-appoint the same individuals whose appointments he withdrew."

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