“He’s a grifter who is taking money from parents who are being taken advantage of,” Gov. JB Pritzker said of attorney Thomas DeVore during an unrelated news conference Oct. 21. “So I hope that you know the reign of grifting and terror that he is trying to bring about in the school districts will come to an end.”
This is a righteous suit, in my opinion. There seems only one way to stand up to Illinois political corruption: judicial review. And defamation seems to fit the definition of corruption, because power is maintained by those holding the microphone, and the office of Governor is invested with implied credibility. The Governor knows or should know that he is falsely accusing someone adversarial to his own position of a crime. If he isn’t held accountable he is incentivized to keep on doing that and benefitting himself in the process. In McHenry County, in the past few years, a tenacious political… Read more »
Fed up neighbor
4 years ago
Absolute executive immunity, that’s according to crapfax Rich Miller, will see.
Rich has to say that to keep his handlers happy. Admit the emperor is wearing no clothes and his access journalism pipeline dries up fast. JB doesn’t have absolute immunity to call a private citizen a grifter and accuse him of illegal activity. If anything, JB has an active law license and slandering his opponent attorney is against the ethical rules.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
This is a righteous suit, in my opinion. There seems only one way to stand up to Illinois political corruption: judicial review. And defamation seems to fit the definition of corruption, because power is maintained by those holding the microphone, and the office of Governor is invested with implied credibility. The Governor knows or should know that he is falsely accusing someone adversarial to his own position of a crime. If he isn’t held accountable he is incentivized to keep on doing that and benefitting himself in the process. In McHenry County, in the past few years, a tenacious political… Read more »
Absolute executive immunity, that’s according to crapfax Rich Miller, will see.
I hope not. JB running off the mouth is getting tiresome.
Rich has to say that to keep his handlers happy. Admit the emperor is wearing no clothes and his access journalism pipeline dries up fast. JB doesn’t have absolute immunity to call a private citizen a grifter and accuse him of illegal activity. If anything, JB has an active law license and slandering his opponent attorney is against the ethical rules.