Threlkeld to seek circuit judge post
April 26, 2021
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EDWARDSVILLE Christopher Threlkeld has announced his candidacy for a circuit judge vacancy in 2022.
A Republican, Threlkeld will run to fill the vacancy created when Circuit Judge David Dugan was confirmed to serve in the federal district court.
Threlkeld has been a circuit judge since February 2020 when he was appointed by Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier (retired). He was reappointed in December 2020.
Threlkeld serves in the civil division and presides over Law division cases. He has also served as the presiding judge over arbitration and other civil dockets. While he was the presiding judge over arbitration, he established remote arbitration hearings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting studied the roadblocks to police accountability. Among the findings: Most states - 29 - keep records of police misconduct secret or difficult to access, although the number of states opening records has increased recently with New York, California, Massachusetts and Illinois opening up. A national database that keeps track of 30,188 officers who have lost their badges doesn’t release the information to the public. In Illinois, 81 Chicago police officers lost their badges in the past two decades, but only after they were investigated for 1,706 prior complaints - 21 per officer. In New York, the repeal of a law blocking access to past complaints opened records to a whopping 323,911 complaints over the past 35 years.
Illinois will lose one member in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in January 2023 and is one of three states to lose population over the last decade, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
It was widely expected that Illinois would lose a member of Congress after the 2020 Census. The state currently has 18 members in the U.S. House of Representatives, but will have 17 seats open in the 2022 election. Six other states also lost members, while six states will gain representatives.
Population loss compared to other states has caused Illinois to lose at least one member of Congress in every reapportionment process since the 1980 Census.
The Southern Illinois University softball team’s series finale at Missouri State that was scheduled for Wednesday, April 28 has been canceled due to impending inclement weather in the Springfield area. The game will not be made up.
The Salukis will shift focus to their final home series of the 2021 regular season when they host Valpo this weekend, beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday, May 1. Southern will honor its seniors –
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The guilty verdicts in the George Floyd murder case felt like a watershed moment to many Americans. President Biden called the verdicts a “giant step toward justice.” But pervasive legal roadblocks to police accountability remain firmly in place.
Most police officers who violate citizens’ rights get away with it because the law is heavily stacked in their favor, legal experts say. None of those legal roadblocks was removed by the guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin.
Qualified immunity. Willful intent. Objective reasonableness. The Law Enforcement Bill of Rights. Union arbitration. Closed misconduct records. An ineffective and closed national database of police misconduct. “Wandering cops” who misbehave and move to a new department where they offend again.