Trial lawyers pony up big bucks to slam Republicans, boost Democrats running in close IL Supreme Court races – Cook County Record

A shift in favor of the Republicans on the court could produce big changes in how state laws and the state constitution are interpreted. The Democratic majority on the sate Supreme Court in recent years, for instance, has shot down attempts to reform the state’s pension system, and denied voters the chance to vote on a new constitutional amendment stripping power from state lawmakers to gerrymander the state’s legislative districts to their partisan advantage.