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Lisa Madigan Counters with “Emergency Powers” Argument: Glen Brown Responds
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, daughter of SB1
designer Speaker Michael Madigan, put forth an argument yesterday to stop Judge
Belz’s earlier Restraining Order granted to We Are One which asked for a stay
in the implementation of the bill’s effective date of June 1, 2014. We are One had argued effectively that
realization of SB1 would cause irreparable damage to the lives and economic stations
of hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in Illinois, and that
enactment should be stopped until a legal ruling on the constitutionality of
bill could be determined. Judge Belz of Sangamon County agreed.
The Attorney General was quick to respond. Her office took the position of “emergency
powers,” the authority to claim sovereign rights under an emergency to waive
all contractual promises. Police Powers.
Blogger and friend Glen Brown has been considering “Emergency
Powers” in the Attorney General’s response for several years in his
postings.
“A state’s option to exercise its police or eminent domain
powers, however, has seldom been brought to the test for obvious reasons. To
declare that Illinois is in an “emergency state,” without attempting revenue
restructuring, for instance, will ignite an examination of the ethical and
legal motivations of policymakers and whether they attempted to exhaust every
alternative available to them for resolving the state’s financial debts before
attempting to ignore a constitutional contract.”
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Glen
looks at the same argument found in the preamble of SB1, a preamble drafted by
Speaker Madigan and crafted by Speaker Madigan to argue “emergency.” Glen discusses the immoral and unethical positions
of such an argument, the disconnect to real history and purpose in the Illinois
Constitution, and the lack of legal authenticity in the Speaker’s…and now his
offspring’s arguments.
Read
Glen’s thoughtful overview of the fallaciousness of the Attorney General’s
position here:
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