A judge raps Democrats’ knuckles in a naked bid to preserve supermajorities.
State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, speaks during the legislative session at the Illinois Capitol building in Springfield on May 19, 2023. would have booted 17 Republicans from the ballot
There’s a reasonable debate to be had on this subject. But Democrats made their true motivations obvious by making the law effective for the upcoming election, which at the time Pritzker signed the bill was just six months away. Republicans cried foul and claimed, rightly, that Democrats were changing the rules in the middle of the game to protect their supermajorities.
This law, legally shaky from the outset, says plenty about the state of both parties in the Land of Lincoln. On the Democratic side, going to such lengths to help a single legislator when the party’s gerrymandered state of play already has yielded majorities so large as to be unhealthy for the state’s governance is a bad look.
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