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COOK COUNTY RECORD

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Mark Glennon, Wirepoints News


The biggest, new reporting law for business that you probably never heard of is ripe for political abuse

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Under a new federal law, all businesses, of all sizes, must now reveal their ownership to the federal government. Should they be worried? Maybe, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints

Gov. JB Pritzker’s new assault on free speech

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he believes the state has the power to "prosecute people" for speech about abortion, if the state of Illinois determines that otherwise constitutionally-protected speech is "deceptive."

Response by Illinois progressives to Friday’s Supreme Court rulings was shameful, irresponsible, dishonest

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Gov. JB Pritzker and other prominent Illinois Democrats lined up to blast the U.S. Supreme Court for three recent decisions. They may rue those statements in coming years, warns Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints

Illinois’ new ban on book bans is an empty and hypocritical stunt

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
The so-called ban on book bans, hailed by Gov. JB Pritzker and other Illinois Democrats, is likely unconstitutional bunk, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints

Illinois bill would criminalize routine discipline as 'parental bullying'

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
While the bill likely will go nowhere, it’s unfathomable that it could even be proposed: In the relevant part, a bill now pending in the Illinois legislature would criminalize, as “parental bullying,” any parent who knowingly, with intent to discipline or alter the behavior of a child, says or messages anything that would coerce the child.

Pritzker's contemptuous answer to a reasonable question on judicial recusal

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Should judges who received a million dollars each from Gov. JB Pritzker for their campaigns recuse themselves from decisions on the constitutionality of two of his pet pieces of legislation — the SAFE-T Act and the assault weapons ban?

Smile, Clarence Thomas: Lightfoot’s Chicago wants courts to restrict bodily autonomy rights by extending Dobbs decision

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Despite excoriating the SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v Wade, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the city attorneys are seeking to use that decision to defeat a challenge to the city's Covid vaccine mandate by arguing the Dobbs decision goes further than SCOTUS intended, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints

Casten’s proposal to strip SCOTUS of constitutional review authority is ‘crackpot,’ universally ridiculed idea

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
U.S. Rep. Sean Casten has proposed rewriting the U.S. Constitution to essentially make it all but impossible for courts to strike down laws that violate the U.S. Constitution and citizens' rights, writes Mark Glennon, of WirePoints

A responsible Illinois General Assembly would be adopting rules similar to the new U.S. House rules

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
No Illinoisans other than those now in charge in Springfield would object to rules requiring three days to read bills before they can be voted on, writes Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints

Supporters of Illinois’ Truth in Politics Act, and their like, deserve contempt and ridicule

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Under a bill introduced by Democratic State Rep. Denise Wang Stoneback, of Skokie, the so-called Truth in Politics Act could criminalize a broad range of blatantly political speech, if the government decides it is "misinformation"

Crazy IL Supreme Court ruling gives glimpse to how SAFE-T Act may be applied in the future, even to the past

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
The ruling is only "a taste of what's to come," Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints, writes. "Courts will have to give meaning to countless items in the 700-page SAFE-T Act and we can expect it to be ... in favor of defendants."

Epic unemployment insurance fraud during pandemic is still being stonewalled by state of Illinois

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
The state may have paid out well more than $6 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits during the Covid pandemic. But Gov. JB Pritzker's Illinois Department of Employment Security isn't letting anyone find out for sure, even while other states are far more transparent, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints

Two ‘compelled speech’ matters beg for litigation in Illinois

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the Democrats who control Illinois' state government and state institutions are all but asking for court challenges to two policies, requiring University of Illinois academics to prove they are working for "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion," and requiring gas stations and grocery stores to tell Illinoisans that the state temporarily suspended certain tax hikes

Students smack down Chicago 'Disinformation' Conference panelists, exposing far more than apparent about media

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Traditional media beclowned itself last week at a Chicago conference on “disinformation.” That’s a story in itself, but the bigger story is how they covered up even that story, peddling disinformation about a conference on disinformation. The guilty include Illinois media, which is further guilty of still suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story that is part of what sparked the fireworks at the conference.

The Big Question: If COVID vax doesn't stop the spread, why do we need vax mandates?

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
While COVID vaccines prevent hospitalizations and death, evidence shows the vaccines don't stop the virus from spreading. It's time for government officials to justify rules requiring people to take the vaccine, Mark Glennon says.

The Content Of Rep. Sean Casten’s Character: His New Video On Critical Race Theory

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, D-Glen Ellyn, says only a "small minority" of racist Americans are opposed to teaching and implementing the principles of Critical Race Theory throughout the U.S. Data and court cases say that's not true, says Mark Glennon, of Wirepoints.

Proposed new IL constitutional amendment a 'monstrous giveaway' to public worker unions

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Illinois voters will decide in 2022 whether to enshrine 'unimagined' union power as a right, similar to that granted public worker pensions, in the state constitution, perhaps forever, says Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon

'Disappointing' that IL Supreme Court missed 'teaching moment' on constitutional limits on state borrowing

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Wirepoints president Mark Glennon says the Illinois Supreme Court should have engaged on the merits of the claims in a taxpayer lawsuit vs the state over borrowing, particularly since the court did not dismiss the lawsuit as "frivolous," as state officials have characterized the suit.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky leading new charge to bully big tech into more censorship

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
Democrats in Congress are attempting to sidestep the First Amendment and pressure Big Tech to engage in the censorship the government can't, argues Mark Glennon

Compulsory political ideology for Illinois teachers moves closer to finalization

By Mark Glennon, Wirepoints |
A proposal pending in Springfield could change the rules for Illinois teachers, forcing them to uphold and teach "woke" progressive political positions in Illinois classrooms or risk losing their licenses.