As the Pretrial Fairness Act component of the SAFE-T Act went into effect Monday, local state legislators were critical of the unintended consequences and expedited passage of the law eliminating cash bail.
MONROE, Louisiana – U. S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who on the Fourth of July enjoined censorship of social media by Joe Biden’s administration, found the government censored a St. Louis native and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. three days after Biden took the oath of office.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Brothers Thomas Maag and Peter Maag of Wood River claim an expert for the state made their point that the vagueness of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s gun law violates the Constitution.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Lawyer Martin Plute no longer works for Illinois attorney general Kwame Raoul, according to a substitution motion in a suit against Chester mental health hospital.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Assistant Illinois attorney general Martin Plute took over a case after his colleague Thomas Ewick was sanctioned for discovery violations, and Plute managed to make matters worse.
Officials at the General Assembly Retirement System suspended Michael McClain’s legislative pension after he was convicted on nine counts of bribery in the ‘ComEd Four’ trial. Precedent suggests it may not be permanent.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul , as part of a bipartisan coalition of 33 attorneys general, asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear an important case in order to protect veterans’ rights to their hard-earned benefits.
Former Madison County Board member Gussie Glasper pleaded guilty on Monday to a criminal misdemeanor charge for disregarding the election code during the June 22, 2022, Primary Election.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 22 states, urged the Biden administration to scrap dangerous federal rules that allow employers to interfere in the reproductive health decisions of their employees.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, issued a letter to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in support of a proposal that would end an outdated blood donation policy that currently bars many gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma.
CARMI – Circuit judges can’t enforce constitutional requirements for passing legislation, Governor Pritzker’s lawyer told White County Circuit Judge Scott Webb at a Jan. 25 hearing for a temporary restraining order on a gun law Pritzker signed on Jan. 10.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Attorney general Kwame Raoul has ignored Chief U. S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel’s order to pay Carbondale lawyer Shari Rhode $1,350 for discovery violations in a discrimination suit.
“The public was misled by these plaintiffs when, soon after retiring from office or indicating an intention not to run for retention, plaintiffs filed this lawsuit claiming that defendant was not allowed to implement a change in their salary and that defendant must pay them the amounts of the reductions in their salaries that occurred over and eight year period,” Neville wrote.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Farmers Matt Morton and Joshua Morton of Kell, having proved that Congress shouldn’t exclude people from a benefit program on the basis of group identity, dismissed their discrimination suit on Aug. 30.
Americans overwhelmingly say they oppose allowing government offices that oversee elections to accept funding for their operations from partisan, private individuals and groups – Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. It’s a problem exposed in the 2020 election on which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife funded an astonishing $419 million in grants to county and municipal voting offices across America for essentially just that to support Democratic voter turnout. “Local election administration” grants are what supporters called it, but “Zucker Bucks” is what it’s more commonly called.
An appeal has been filed in the case a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board brought against Jenny Thornley, the former merit board employee at the center of a multipronged case of alleged worker’s compensation fraud with connections to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office.
