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Hallowe’en-scary abortion ads a disservice to democracy
By Jim Nowlan The airwaves are clogged with Hallowe’en-scary ads this fall, making preposterous claims that voting for Republican candidates for the state Supreme Court will cause Illinois to criminalize abortion. When desperate, you do desperate things. The absurdity is obvious to any thoughtful voter, to wit: Illinois is a Blue state that…
The Deal—I can’t prove it, but everyone knows it’s true
By Jim Nowlan Here’s The Deal: Lawyers and judges elevated to the Illinois Supreme Court by the Judicial Nominating Committee of the Cook County Democratic Party are allowed to be the best jurists they can be on 90-95 percent of the cases before them. But, on any cases affecting the Party, such as redistricting reform,…
Blog: How Indicted Alderman Ed Burke Shaped Illinois Judiciary
By Jim Nowlan Indicted Chicago alderman Ed Burke is back in the news, as he has been regularly during the two years since he was indicted on 14 charges of public corruption. (Young people may come to think his first name is “Indicted”.) The 78-year-old Burke has thus far spent $2.7 million of the $12…
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