The order is a blow to the state’s Democratic leadership, and particularly Democratic elected officials in Cook County, who had indicated their intention to ignore the ruling from Kankakee County Judge Thomas Cunnington. 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
Temporary at best. 5 democrats, 2 Republicans on the ILSC so we know who the court is going to take orders from. Judicial independence is not going to happen. Voting will be done according to the what is told to be done by the democrat leadership and the 5 judges will obey.
I’m actually not buying it this time, these judges know they don’t want to have their names attached to this bs
You are correct. Most lawyers care very much about their professional reputation, and they know how egregious law is. They don’t want to be remembered as the political hacks that trampled the constitution in a way that every Con Law 101 student could recognize.: The IL state constitution literally says, at the BILL OF RIGHTS, at Section 9 – BAIL and HABEAS CORPUS: “ALL PERSONS SHALL BE BAILABLE BY SUFFICIENT SURETIES…” The rest of the sentence lists certain exceptions such as capital offenses, if the punishment is life imprisonment, and if bail would result in a “…real and present threat… Read more »
Suck it Kim.