u.s. supreme court

“The rights of people to go to a 4th of July parade and be safe, and not have 48 people shot with more than 60 bullets per second, issued by a weapon that shouldn't be available to the public,” Pritzker said. #stateban #weapons #jbpritzker

“The end of birthright citizenship would have undermined the Constitution, left pregnant women with stateless children, and uprooted entire communities,” Hernandez said. #citizenshiip #supremecourt #democratic

"Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision affirms what Illinois has long understood: when voters cast their ballots on time and follow the rules, their voices deserve to be heard," Gordon said. #supremecourt #monicagordon #mailballot

The Supreme Court last week blocked Trump from sending federalized National Guard troops to Illinois, which Pritzker called a check on executive overreach.  #supremecourt #ruling #nationalguard

President Donald Trump’s Oct. 4 order to federalize, or take control of, 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, along with the deployment of 200 Texas guardsmen and another 16 troops from California, has been blocked since last week. #trump

“Louisiana vs. Callais represents a generational threat to the kind of Black political power for which generations before us have fought and died,” Preston said in a statement. #voting

“Corruption fuels a power that is wielded not for representative democracy by the will of the people, but things like oligarchy, autocracy, even kleptocracy, all while keeping up appearance of democracy,” Shah said. #sentencing