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Pritzker lashes out at state lawmaker over legal challenge to stay-at-home order

CHICAGO (The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday that a southern Illinois judge set a dangerous precedent by ruling in favor of a state lawmaker who filed a lawsuit challenging his stay-at-home order. The governor hit back at state Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia), who won the first round of a legal battle that could go to the Illinois Supreme Court. Pritzker said he has great respect for the judiciary, but called the lawsuit a "charade" and a "political […]

todayApril 28, 2020

Illinois

Rep. Bailey granted restraining order against Pritzker shelter-in-place extension

LOUISVILLE, Ill. (Heartland Newsfeed) -- An Illinois state representative was granted a temporary restraining order Monday against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's shelter-in-place order extension. Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) filed the suit in Clay County court this past Thursday. The approval of the restraining order in Bailey v. Pritzker (Case No. 2020-CH-06) rules that Pritzker cannot enforce his 30-day extension of the statewide shelter-in-place order. Moreover, Pritzker's actions to extend the deadline to May 30 was given an unconstitutional declaration by […]

todayApril 28, 2020

Nokomis Illinois election laws third-party voter

Columnists

COMMENTARY: It’s time for Illinois’ election laws to be reformed for the better

I have been quite vocal about reform election law reform for quite some time on social media. Actually, it's been more prevalent since the beginning of the 2018 election cycle: Attempts to reform the state's election code of laws have been made since 2013 by state Sen. Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill) in the form of Senate Bill 1624, which called for the elimination of the "ballot access multiplier", which requires independent and new party candidates to collect, depending on political […]

todayMarch 14, 2019

Darren Bailey

Capital Area Region

Bailey fears state government won’t keep spending in check

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Newly sworn-in state Rep. Darren Bailey is fearing his suspicions about what would take place in Springfield are becoming reality. “This seems to send an early example of how Gov. Pritzker plans to spend us into oblivion,” Bailey, the Republican newcomer from Xenia, stated in regards to the passage of Senate Bill 3531 during the lame duck legislative session, which increases the annual salaries of state departmental workers, associate directors and secretaries by 15 percent. “Then […]

todayJanuary 21, 2019

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