(The Center Square) – The Illinois State Rifle Association says Illinois State Police are operating outside the boundaries of the law and violating people's rights with continued delays in processing gun owner applications. .
By Peter Hancock & Capitol News Illinois
• Jan 26, 2021
Peter Breen, a former state representative and vice president and senior counsel of the Thomas More Society, speaks during a news event in Chicago after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Reproductive Health Act in 2019. The Society is challenging the legality of an abortion coverage mandate in the law.
Credit Capitol News Illinois file photo by Rebecca Anzel
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation to determine whether Illinois has violated federal law by enacting and enforcing the 2019 Reproductive Health Act which, among other things, requires certain health insurance plans to cover abortion services.
Supreme Court Won’t Make Government Unions Give Back Unconstitutional Dues
While Mark Janus won a landmark legal victory in 2018 outlawing public-sector unions’ collection of forced agency fees from nonmembers, the Supreme Court has denied his follow-up request to have his money reimbursed, without granting him a hearing.
The new ruling in which the high court refused to consider the petition for certiorari in Janus v. AFSCME, which bears the same title of proceeding as the landmark ruling, came on Jan. 25. The court didn’t explain why it acted. No justices indicated they dissented from the decision.
The ruling, which leaves in place a decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, is a victory for the labor movement. It came after the Supreme Court overturned Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977) in Janus’s earlier lawsuit in 2018, holding that public-sector unions couldn’t collect forced agency fees from nonmembers to finance their collective bargaining activities
HHS launches probe into Illinois abortion law
Complaint was filed by law firm that focuses on religious freedom issues
By Peter Hancock
Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation to determine whether Illinois has violated federal law by enacting and enforcing the 2019 Reproductive Health Act which, among other things, requires certain health insurance plans to cover abortion services.
In a letter dated Jan. 19, which was the last full day of the Trump administration, HHS’s Office of Civil Rights notified the Chicago-based Thomas More Society that it had received a complaint the group filed in October 2019 and had agreed to open an investigation to determine if certain portions of the act violate federal law.
Originally published on January 25, 2021 5:03 pm
The state’s highest court deadlocked Friday over how to interpret a state law that outlines the procedure judges must follow to sentence a minor who is found guilty of a crime to a state juvenile detention center.
The case, out of Rock Island County, raised the question of whether, under Illinois law, a judge must state directly in the court record that commitment to a juvenile detention facility is the “least restrictive” sentencing option.
The two-sentence opinion noted that Illinois Supreme Court Justice Robert Carter, who was appointed in November to replace former Justice Thomas Kilbride, recused himself, leaving only six justices to decide on the case.