Illinois Leaks | Appellate Court: Markham Mayor Agpawa Ineligible For Office; Governor Cannot Restore Rights Of Federal Felon – edgarcountywatchdogs.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edgarcountywatchdogs.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SPRINGFIELD â An Illinois Supreme Court decision Wednesday clarified that the state election code prohibits a person from collecting signatures for both a party candidate in a consolidated primary and an independent candidate in the consolidated general election that follows.
The court interpreted the section of the election code that is referred to as the prohibition on âdual circulators.â
This section states that âno person shall circulate or certify petitions for candidates of more than one political party, or for an independent candidate or candidates in addition to one political party, to be voted upon at the next primary or general election, or for such candidates and parties with respect to the same political subdivision at the next consolidated election.â
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By Sarah Mansur
Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD State Rep. Thaddeus Jones’ name was legally placed on a February primary ballot seeking the Democratic nomination for Calumet City mayor, according to an Illinois Supreme Court opinion released Thursday.
But it’s unclear whether the opinion authorizes the Calumet City Democrat to be sworn in as that city’s mayor if he wins the April 6 General Election and remains a state lawmaker, according to an attorney for the city. That’s still in question, because the residents of Calumet City passed a referendum in November prohibiting anyone who holds an office created by the state’s constitution from serving as mayor.
Meghan Murphy, the editor of trans-exclusionary feminist website
Feminist Current, has lost a court bid to overturn her Twitter ban over posts repeatedly referring to transgender women as men.
In a 42-page opinion dated 22 January, California’s First District Appellate Court upheld a decision to dismiss a lawsuit from Murphy, finding that Twitter was well within its rights to issue bans for violating policies on hateful conduct.
According to court documents, the Canadian writer was suspended after she targeted a number of local transgender campaigners, referring to them as “he” and “trans-identified male/misogynist”.
Murphy’s complaint argued that Twitter’s hateful conduct policy, which bars “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals”, constitutes “viewpoint discrimination” because it “forbids expression” of the view that trans women are men.