Has anyone asked Pat Quinn what he’d do?
Not a bad strategy considering the 7th Circuit’s opinion in the County Clerk’s case.
- Anon E Moose - Wednesday, Apr 28, 21 @ 9:26 am:
Consent decrees should go on for 52 years.
- Anon E Moose - Wednesday, Apr 28, 21 @ 9:26 am: shouldn’t
Nice to see a judge respecting federalism and the 10th amendment…
“the Court expressed “the grave federalism concerns we have with the fact that [a local government] has been under the thumb of a federal consent decree for the last 50 years”
The decree was important. The execution was/is a miserable failure. Let me tell you about the hiring/interviewing process in a Shankman world.
Illinois government saw too many make ‘naughty’ list in 2020
Illinois government saw too many make ‘naughty’ list in 2020 COVID-19 showed everyone the heroes in health care and essential services, but it also exposed weak character or bad behavior of many in Illinois government.
Illinois has big reserves of coal, which is good because Santa will need a lot of it to cover the misdeeds in Illinois state government from 2020.
Here are some highlights of those making the “naughty” and “nice” lists during a year of unrest, uncertainty and dysfunction in Illinois.
Naughty: Mike Madigan
Illinois House Speaker Madigan’s 35 years of accumulating power was at great risk after federal prosecutors and Commonwealth Edison detailed how over $1.3 million in payments were made to his cronies to win his favor for legislation worth more than $150 million to the electric utility. Similar allegations are being probed involving AT&T, Walgreens and Rush University Medical Center
Pritzker fighting to keep political hiring reports under wraps
Pritzker fighting to keep political hiring reports under wraps The lawyers who over 50 years ago started the fight against political patronage in Springfield and Chicago are arguing Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration is not ready to lose federal oversight of hiring. Efforts to hide hiring records prove that point, they said.
Gov. J.B. Prizker is in federal court asking to be relieved of federal oversight on hiring, but the attorneys who started the fight against political patronage in 1969 are saying Pritzker’s effort to block access to hiring reports proves it’s too soon to retire the watchdog.