Posted on 03/09/2023 7:25:45 AM PST by AT7Saluki
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday that despite his million-dollar donations to two Illinois Supreme Court justices last year, they are independent and should not have to recuse themselves from two high-profile cases before them in which the governor is a defendant.
Pritzker donated a total of $2 million from two separate accounts to then-Illinois Supreme Court candidates Mary O’Brien and Elizabeth Rochford, $1 million each. Those candidates are now justices on the bench of seven who will hear separate challenges to the state's no-cash bail provision (next week) and to the state's gun ban and registry (in May). Pritzker signed both the SAFE-T Act and the gun ban into law and is a defendant in the lawsuits challenging their constitutionality.
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Pritzker also said Wednesday that he didn’t violate campaign finance laws he signed last year in making the donations. The 2022 law capped contribution limits in such campaigns to $500,000 from “any single person.” Pritzker’s $2 million in donations $1 million each – came from two separate counts, $500,000 to each from both Pritzker’s political campaign and his revocable trust.
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday that despite his million-dollar donations to two Illinois Supreme Court justices last year, they are independent and should not have to recuse themselves from two high-profile cases before them in which the governor is a defendant.
Be thankful some warrior is challenging this......
Wow if your going to say every politician in Illinois that receives Pritzker money has to recuse themselves. You would have 70% of Illinois politicians with nothing to do. Pitzker and his family trust have been donating to the wokest part of the democrat party in Illinois for almost two decades. He is in large part, the biggest part of Illinois’ problems. He and his family are why Boeing, Caterpillar and Citadel have left the state. People always blame the bogeyman, George Soros does give to these people too. But blaming Soros gives our local billionaires a pass. Soros does not give all the money. His money needs to be matched locally. And in Illinois its matched by the Pritzker family.
Pritzker money is also behind the current transgender mania.
Know your enemy:
Pritzker was born and raised in Atherton, California, a member of the Pritzker family, a Jewish family prominent in business and philanthropy during the late 20th century.[6][7] The Pritzkers have consistently been near the top of the Forbes “America’s Richest Families” list since its 1982 inception.[8] One of three children of Sue (née Sandel) and Donald Pritzker,[9] his elder siblings are Penny Pritzker, former United States Secretary of Commerce, and Anthony Pritzker.[10] Pritzker is named after both of his father’s brothers, Jay and Bob.[11] His grandfather Abe Pritzker was a business lawyer.[12] Pritzker has said that certain overseas trusts, for which he was the designated beneficiary, were set up by his grandfather and used only for charitable contributions, without any personal benefit to him.[13]
Pritzker grew up in LA. He and his sister came to Illinois to run the family business. They let others do that. But what they do is manipulate Illinois governments. They are as woke as they come, including full support of BLM, Antifa and all the worst parts of the LGBQ... community. And that goes for all the Trans mutilation of children.
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