WAUCONDA - One from Downstate, the other from near the Wisconsin border - state Senator Darren Bailey - farmer and businessman from downstate Xenia and Kathy Salvi - an attorney from Lake County's Wauconda. The two are leading in Illinois Republican Primary races that will be at the top of Tuesday's ballot.
Bailey has been working the campaign trail for over a year and is just completing a statewide tour in which he reports visiting all 102 Illinois counties. He is getting 37.6% of the vote in a six-way race. Second is first-time candidate Jesse Sullivan at 17.2%. Third is Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, whose campaign received $50 million from Illinois billionaire Ken Griffin, with an embarrassing 10.7% in the polls conducted by Ogden & Fry.
When undecideds were pushed, Bailey grabbed 44.8% of the polling votes.
Salvi, who ran for Congress a few years back, has raised her numbers to be ahead of her closest challenger in the Republican US Senate race Peggy Hubbard by 20.1% to 11,2%. Eight people are vying for the U.S. Senate seat.
When undecideds were pushed, Kathy Salvi received 38.2% of the vote.
The Baileys and the Salvis were at the Trump rally Saturday night in Mendon, Illinois.
QUINCY - Former President Donald Trump flew into Quincy Illinois Saturday to hold a rally and emphasize his previously announced endorsement Congresswoman Mary Miller in the contentious 15th CD Republican primary between two incumbents - Miller and Congressman Rodney Davis.
Trump's endorsement is expected to be a substantial boost to Miller's re-election campaign as the hours near to Illinois' 2022 Republican Primary election on Tuesday, June 28th.
PEORIA - Congressman Darin LaHood (R-16) was endorsed Sunday night by former President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social:
Trump pointed out LaHood's background and the fact that he is a current member of the House Intelligence Committee and that he is a "Champion for Illinois Farmers, our Brave Veterans, and our Great Police..."
LaHood and three others are on the 2022 IL GOP Primary ballot for June 28, 2022.
LaHood doesn't agree with Trump on who should represent the 15th CD, however. Trump was in Adams County, Illinois Saturday evening to endorse Congresswoman Mary Miller over fellow Congressman Rodney Davis. The two incumbents are vying to represent the newly-redrawn 15th CD.
LaHood - in an unenviable position to pick between two colleagues - chose to endorse Davis over Miller in that highly-competitive race.
By Mark Weyermuller -
On Saturday, President Donald Trump held a “Save America” Rally at the Adam’s County Fairgrounds in Mendon, Illinois.
The big news was Trump’s endorsement of Darren Bailey for Illinois governor and Mary Miller for Congress in the 15th District. Both Bailey and Miller went on stage with the president in front of an estimated crowd of 12,000.
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By John F. Di Leo -
On Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The Dobbs ruling was significant, for two reasons: It settled a question regarding abortion at the national level: that it’s not the federal government’s business, so it’s up to the states. Also, since it overturned a 50-year-old ruling, it reminds both the general public and future courts that our respect for precedent should not be so blind as to allow blatantly unfounded rulings to stand if a chance comes up to correct the error.
The outcry was loud and immediate, and no wonder: a multibillion dollar industry has grown up around the concept of “abortion on demand,” not to mention incredible behavioral changes, both micro and macro, as everything from individual dating practices to the nature of the pop culture were altered to accommodate the practice.
Continue reading "Di Leo: Considering the Most Serious Complaint in the Outcry over Dobbs" »
Expanding permanent vote-by-mail options to all eligible voters while retaining in-person voting would likely increase turnout without giving any political party an advantage.
Illinois could see over 200,000 more votes in its general elections as a result of expanded vote-by-mail services, but the higher turnout will not necessarily give an advantage to either major party and might yield better-informed voters.
Recent legislation gives Illinoisans the ability to choose to automatically receive mail-in ballots for all future primary and general elections with a single application, rather than having to request a mail-in ballot before each election. Illinois’ move to allow permanent voting by mail is largely similar to the no-excuse absentee voting system that has been in place since 2005. Now those who wish to vote by mail will only have to apply once instead of ahead of each election.
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By repudiating Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that said women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, the Supreme Court has freed states to set their own abortion policies. But the impact of the new leeway allowed by the Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will vary widely across the country. While severe restrictions will be enacted or take effect in many states, abortion will remain legal in most.
Thirteen states have “trigger” bans that are designed to take effect after Roe is overturned. Some of those states, plus others, have enacted laws that were enjoined based on Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed Roe‘s “central holding.” Several states do not currently have bans but are expected to enact them in response to Dobbs, which overturned both of those precedents.
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The lawyers who won a major Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court this week got even less than a pat on the back from the white-shoe law firm they work for – they were forced to quit.
Paul Clement and Erin Murphy, the lawyers who successfully argued against New York’s law restricting conceal-carry gun permits, were told by Kirkland & Ellis they had to stop representing Second Amendment plaintiffs or find another firm. In a Wall Street Journal article, the duo explained how their celebration was cut short.
“Having just secured a landmark decision vindicating our clients’ constitutional Second Amendment rights in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, we were presented with a stark choice—withdraw from representing them or withdraw from the firm,” they wrote. “There was only one choice: We couldn’t abandon our clients simply because their positions are unpopular in some circles.”
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From Liberty Counsel -
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade and 1992 Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Caseyabortion decisions.
Justice Alito authored the opinion of the Court, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Justice Alito was joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Chief Justice Roberts authored a concurring opinion saying that he agreed that the viability standard had no basis in the Constitution and that it should be discarded, but he did not vote to overturn Roe and Casey. Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan jointly authored a dissent to the opinion.
There is nothing in the Constitution about abortion, and the Constitution does not implicitly protect the right. In fact, the Constitution protects the fundamental right to life, which was enshrined in the Nation’s birth certificate – the Declaration of Independence. The Court holds that "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
Justice Thomas writes separately to reiterate his view that the due process clause also does not protect a right to an abortion. He says the Court needs to dispense with the nonsense of substantive due process. “As I have previously explained, ‘substantive due process’ is an oxymoron that lacks any basis in the Constitution.” Indeed, “[t]he notion that a constitutional provision that guarantees only process before a person is deprived of life, liberty, or property could define the substance of those rights strains credulity for even the most causal user of words.”
“The resolution of this case is thus straightforward. Because the Due Process Claus does not secure any substantive rights, it does not secure a right to abortion.”
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By John F. Di Leo -
Some battles are clear-cut. If the Cubs play the Brewers, one team wins and the other team loses. A score is posted and everyone knows who the winner is.
It’s often that simple with Supreme Court rulings too… but not with Dobbs.
On Friday, June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court released the long-awaited decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
At long last, the high court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision in which the Supreme Court assumed the power to regulate how and when states can regulate abortion.
Continue reading "Di Leo: Who Really “Won” in the Dobbs Ruling?" »
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CHICAGO - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker just issued the following statement concerning the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs Wade:
Then he expanded with a lengthier, angrier statement:
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court issued the following opinion this morning on the Dobbs case:
Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.
The Court's 6 to 3 opinion is HERE
The Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly voted in 2019 to preserve the right to an abortion in Illinois in the case of such a decision. Gov. JB Pritzker signed it into law.
Planned Parenthood clinics and other independent abortion facilities are preparing for an influx of expectant mothers from other states to come to Illinois for abortions. Illinois is one of the nation's least restrictive states - currently, the only abortion restriction is against ending the life of a viable unborn baby unless a mother's health or life is endangered.
Philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker, at left, and Illinois Gov. J.B. PritzkerVINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES; ALAMY
By Jennifer Bilek at Tablet -
One of the most powerful yet unremarked-upon drivers of our current wars over definitions of gender is a concerted push by members of one of the richest families in the United States to transition Americans from a dimorphic definition of sex to the broad acceptance and propagation of synthetic sex identities (SSI). Over the past decade, the Pritzkers of Illinois, who helped put Barack Obama in the White House and include among their number former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, current Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker, appear to have used a family philanthropic apparatus to drive an ideology and practice of disembodiment into our medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions.
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Eight Republican House members have introduced legislation to defund climate czar John Kerry and other “climate tyrants“ inside the Biden administration, blaming them for an energy crisis that has sent gasoline soaring to $5 a gallon.
The group, led by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for CZARS Act that would ban federal funding for any activity of the special presidential envoy for climate, including salary and both administrative and travel expenses.
“Hard-working Americans are struggling every day to afford gas and electricity because of the disastrous energy policies peddled by hysterical fools like John Kerry,” Roy said in announcing the legislation.
He took particular aim at Kerry‘s reported use of government jets to fly to global environmental conferences.
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New inflation data released June 10 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics project that average prices rose 8.6% from May 2021 to May 2022. After a slight decline in April, the new data suggests inflation is now back at the high levels seen in March 2022.
Illinoisans are already feeling the pain of the highest inflation rates in 40 years. While the average private-sector worker in Illinois saw a pay bump of more than $3,408 over the last 12 months, prices have been rising far faster. To keep up with inflation, the average worker in Illinois would have needed wages to rise by $5,635.
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(The Center Square) – Add Illinois-based heavy machinery manufacturer Caterpillar to the list of employers that are sending their corporate headquarters out of state.
Caterpillar will soon have its headquarters in Texas rather than the Land of Lincoln. It's the second major employer moving out of the state in a month. Boeing announced in May it was relocating its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia.
Tuesday, Caterpillar’s CEO Jim Umpleby said the planned move by the end of the year from Deerfield to Texas is “the best strategic interest of the company.”
Caterpillar’s move will impact about 230 executive-level jobs.
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A WalletHub report examining economic racial inequality ranked Illinois No. 50 for disproportionate rates of unemployment, income, poverty, homelessness and representation in business leadership between Black and white residents.
Illinois was ranked the worst state in the nation for racial economic inequality, according to a new WalletHub report.
The study of economic inequality found Black Illinoisans experienced unemployment, homelessness and exclusion from the labor force at the nation’s most disproportionate rates compared to its white residents. Illinois was worst among states, but the District of Columbia’s Black residents faced greater inequality.
Alaska reported the least economic differences between white and Black residents.
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