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The state’s motion seeking a delay in its required response to a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois’ gun ban was denied Thursday. Since Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Jan. 10 enacted the state’s ban on more than 170 semi-automatic guns and magazines of more than 10 rounds for rifles and 15 rounds for handguns, a slew of legal challenges have been filed.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Raoul is a politician in over his head when it comes to lawyering. And he’s in enemy territory in federal court in the southern district. Federal court judges, for the most part, are not complete hacks. They generally went to the best colleges, got the best grades, and have significant experience before being appointed to the bench, and have to go before a senate confirmation hearing. Things changed a bit when Trump was elected because the senate went on a federal bench appointing spree and appointed a lot of new judges. But Trump’s people had to go a little bit… Read more »
Lots of big words in the court filings that Raoul doesn’t understsnd
I wish we had an Attorney General that focused on crime such as found in Chicago political corruption instead of one that uses our tax dollars to take away our rights. To think the majority of Illinois voters elected this person as so many of them do strictly by party membership coupled with those too lazy to vote.
Mr Raoul has a very quizzical look on his face as in, “I should have stayed awake in that law class when they talked about this stuff”.