Tuesday, January 14, 2025
A measure awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature will help protect transgender people and victims of domestic violence who seek to change their names, according to its proponents.
“The threat of arrest and prosecution keeps sex workers unsafe and in the shadows, and this threat must be eliminated,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, said Monday at a news conference announcing the proposed bill. “This law is essential now more than ever.”
In a case indicative of the justice system’s slowly changing attitude toward domestic violence, a judge Monday shaved more than three years off the sentence of a Chicago woman who said she shot and killed her abuser in 2001.
The former Republican Illinois Attorney General candidate is taking the Illinois House Minority Leader to federal court over alleged censorship on her social media page used to communicate government business.
When Michael Madigan chose to take the stand in his own defense last week, his decision stunned most legal and political observers because of what happened at the Dirksen Federal Building Monday.