Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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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
The brazen disregard for the constitution and bill of rights is disgusting. What other parts of the constitution will they trample in the future?
More bubble-gum logic from Dey. Maybe fortune cookies next time?
Both factions of the R party are correct and wrong at the same time. Bailey’s brand of R did turn Southern IL ruby red. And the IL Republican Party needs to moderate on some issues to win suburban voters. Dey is correct too: Gerrymandering absolutely hurts Republican’s chances of winning districts. They turn 55% of statewide votes into a nearly 70% supermajority. Most gerrymandered districts in the nation. But what everyone is missing and I keep telling people is that Ballot Harvesting in dense suburban areas is what gives Democrats 700,000 extra votes today that they did not have prior… Read more »
In Chicago most perpetrators are POC as are most victims.
This new law, the SAFE-T Act, favors criminals and victimizes victims.
The whole thing should be repealed and they can start over again … but they won’t.
Stupid chickens.