Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon guest on AM560 with Chris Krok discussing CTU lawsuit agains Illinois Policy and more
August 19, 2026
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-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
The expertise of the people on the ballot isn’t the reason others choose not to run. It is the inherent corruption in which people are “appointed” to positions that are supposed to be left to voters, and court rulings that defy logic. (2025 McCombie vs. Ill Board of Elections)
Additionally, pointing to a survey where attorneys rank other attorneys that might end up presiding on their case does not seem entirely unbiased either. Disenfranchisement by republicans, or anyone having another voice, doesn’t matter.
When you see in black and white how the Democrat Party controls the judicial races, you see just what a one party system does to a place. It is not only one party rule, but now it isn’t even three branches of government in Cook County any more.
All the judicial candidates are Democrats, with no Republicans on the list at all. The county Democratic Party slated only 5 of the 46 Democratic candidates, including just one white man in a county where the average lawyer is a white man over 50 years old. Running for judge as a white man in 2026 takes a lot of what Blagojevich would call testicular fortitude. The profession remains top-heavy with many white male “boomer”-aged lawyers, few of whom seem eager to retire, while fewer young lawyers are graduating law school overall and demographics skew heavily toward women (i.e. DePaul Law… Read more »