Friday, February 7, 2025
A leading appellate attorney reviews the two Illinois Supreme Court opinions handed down yesterday.
Illinois participated in one court battle with the Trump administration Thursday when a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of an executive order that sought to end “birthright citizenship” under the U.S. Constitution.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid in cases involving 3 ex-cops: Jon Burge, Reynaldo Guevara and Ronald Watts. And more than 220 lawsuits are still pending. Beleaguered taxpayers might end up paying hundreds of millions more for those remaining cases.
Ask a roomful of police officers if they could make any part of their job disappear with the wave of a magic wand, and more than a few will choose the time spent filling out reports and other paperwork.
The jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial went home without a verdict for the seventh day Thursday.