Illinois Supreme Court Accused of Double Standard in Judge’s Removal Over Pro-Trump Comments – Legal Insurrection

“Defendants claim Judge (James) Brown undermined public confidence in the judiciary,” attorneys wrote in the latest filing. “Yet Defendants allow other sitting judges to publicly speak on matters of public concern,” the attorneys argued, before summarizing some of Judge Ramon Ocasio’s  comments. “His columns discuss myriad matters of public concern, including: the ‘abolition of policing’ through the lens of the Native American ‘indigenous resistance’ who view police officers as ‘foot soldiers of U.S. occupation, racism, and misogyny,” the filing stated.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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