Column: Social-justice law again raising concerns about public safety – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "A member of the legislative committee of the State’s Attorney’s Association, (Champaign County State’s Attorney Julia) Rietz is among those pressing for changes. She wants to broaden 'the detention net,' in other words, to expand the list of offenses where detention is permitted. Rietz also wants to permit judges to detain individuals who were previously released but violated their release terms."

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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