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Isabel’s morning briefing

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller

* ICYMI: Legislators OK rules for maintaining, enforcing registry of guns covered by state ban. Tribune

    -During Tuesday’s hearing of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, or JCAR, state police officials addressed issuesdfrom those oppose the ban that ranged from privacy for gun owners to what information would be available to police when they stop someone whose firearm information is in the registry.

    -While Republicans on JCAR failed to stop the rules from being put into place, their motion to object to the rules passed in a 6-5 vote along partisan lines, meaning the state police will have 90 days to address the objection.

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Governor Pritzker will be at Wieland in East Alton at 10:30 a.m. to announce new investments and then Ellis Elementary School in Belleville at 12:30 p.m. touting Smart Start investments. Click here to watch.

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6 Comments
  1. - TheInvisibleMan - Wednesday, Jan 17, 24 @ 8:37 am:

    “Racial equity activist must pay at least $38,000 after judge dismisses her lawsuit alleging harm from Awake Illinois leader”

    I absolutely despise Awake, but this was the correct decision.

    Like it or not, when you willingly choose to insert yourself into matters of public import, you accept all the slings and arrows which come with it. There were no death threats involved here, no doxxing, nothing but heated words. As a public official, and not just a limited-purpose public figure, attempting to silence or retaliate against your opponent through courts means you think courts can be more powerful than your position. In the short term maybe, but in the long term this is always a losing position. Always.

    Open and intense public commenting generally acts as a balancing force, to act as a filter to ensure you at least believe your cause is more important than yourself. That’s supposed to be the core purpose of open debate. When you start to put yourself as more important than your cause, it may seem like the right choice to file these types of suits. But even before the case was decided, the filer had already lost.

    I’m disappointed the person filed this suit. It weakens their position automatically, and that was the wrong choice. Sometimes egos are hard to get out of the way of, and take over. She needed someone at her side to remind her that her advocacy was more important than her comfort. Because its going to be uncomfortable when advocating for change, otherwise it already would have been done.

    “To me, it’s really a shame that almost 70 years after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954, I am still advocating for my daughters to receive equal education opportunities free from racial harm and trauma.”

    Except she didn’t sue for anything relating to her daughter. She sued for something purely related to herself.

    IL has very strong anti-SLAPP laws, and this person filing was given absolutely terrible advice by her union rep which led to the filing of this lawsuit. I don’t see how this can be reversed on any appeal, unless some magical new evidence is submitted.


  2. - Formerly Unemployed - Wednesday, Jan 17, 24 @ 9:31 am:

    How can we get CTU to care about migrants so that the mayor will deal with this issue?


  3. - Steve - Wednesday, Jan 17, 24 @ 9:54 am:

    -How can we get CTU to care about migrants-

    Housing can’t be built quick enough for the asylum seekers even though Chicago has vacant land. This is the core of the problem. Poor migrants have no where they can afford to live.


  4. - Lurker - Wednesday, Jan 17, 24 @ 10:01 am:

    I agree they should have prepared Thelma for boos but wow did I find that so cringe-worthy. Shameful.


  5. - Unedited - Wednesday, Jan 17, 24 @ 12:16 pm:

    I would’ve never guessed that LA and Orlando are warmer than Springfield. Thanks for that incisive reporting, SJ-R!


  6. - Thomas Paine - Wednesday, Jan 17, 24 @ 1:54 pm:

    @InvisibleMan and @Capitolfax -

    I don’t believe the anti-SLAPP decision is so clear-cut.

    The Appellate Court for the 1st District ruled that the plain language of the statute runs into Constitutional problems:

    https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2134786010647765667&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr

    It’s important to understand that if the goal of anti-SLAPP legislation it to promote robust public debate, should not provide refuge for those who want to take to the internet to make malicious, false claims about other citizens with whom they disagree.

    Keep in mind, this teacher was being attacked for what she did in her free time as a private citizen.

    It’s also hard to believe the judge could not accept on its face that a public statement that a person is a child abuser is on its face damaging to their reputation, particularly if that person is a teacher, and actionable if it can be proven false.

    I can’t imagine judges want to give everyone license to call them child abusers and then hide behind an anti-SLAPP law just because they are a public official.

    At the same time, if it’s okay to make baseless claims that teachers are child abusers, does that not mean it’s okay to make baseless, public claims that the officers of AWAKE Illinois are child abusers? Is that what we really want?


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