Posted on 02/23/2023 12:40:22 PM PST by COSIllinois
As Illinois Review reported last month, State Rep. Dan Caulkins of Decatur had filed a lawsuit challenging Gov. JB Pritzker’s Assault Weapons Ban nearly identical to the three lawsuits filed by former Republican AG candidate Thomas DeVore.
With Temporary Restraining Orders granted in all four of the cases, DeVore recently moved to transfer and consolidate the cases before Effingham County Judge Joshua Morrison.
Judge Morrison was the first judge to enter a Temporary Restraining Order, on January 20th, and that decision was affirmed on appeal by the Appellate Court, 5th District.
But in a surprising turn of events, counsel for Rep. Caulkins filed a two-paragraph opposition to DeVore’s consolidation motion yesterday with the Illinois Supreme Court. Joining with Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Rep. Caulkins is opposing consolidation on the basis that his case – while nearly identical to and filed after DeVore’s initial case – is procedurally different than DeVore’s three cases.
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Can anyone name any of the Constitutional Bill of Rights, other than apparently the Second Amendment, that is subject to individual State modification? To my mind, the individual States accepted the Constitution, as is, when they ratified their adoption into the United States and “shall not infringe”.
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