On Monday, former Republican nominee for Attorney General Tom DeVore and former Illinois State Senator and Republican nominee for governor Darren Bailey filed a lawsuit in White County, challenging Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker’s assault weapons ban, after an Effingham County Judge issued a temporary restraining order late Friday night while the lawsuit proceeds.
The lawsuit raises the same claims as the one filed last week in Effingham County and names Gov. JB Pritzker, State Senate President Don Harmon, D, Illinois House Speaker Christopher Welch, D, and Attorney General Kwame Raoul, D, as defendants.
The lawsuit names over 1,600 plaintiffs, including Bailey; 68 federal firearms dealers and 92 counties, and is based on alleged violations of the Illinois Constitution. One alleged violation is of the Equal Protection Clause, because the Assault Weapons Ban provides exemptions for certain groups – for instance, active and retired law enforcement are exempted from the ban, as well as active military and private security guards.
Retired military, however, much like the general population, are not exempted from the ban. DeVore argues that these exemptions create unconstitutional classes of citizens where legislators have decided who is subject to the ban and who is not.
A hearing is scheduled for this Wednesday at 9:00 am at the White County Courthouse.
A link to the Complaint can be accessed here.
Please continue to follow Illinois Review and DeVore Law Offices for more updates as they become available.
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At the 2017 Republican National Committee winter meeting, where Ronna Romney-McDaniel would be elected as the RNC chairwoman, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said,
“We’ve got record levels of red all over the country.”
As NBC News reported, after the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump, as the 45th President of the United States, Republicans controlled “both the House and the Senate, as well as both chambers in 32 state legislatures. In 25 of those states, Republicans held both statehouse chambers and the governorship.”
By contrast, the Democrats held a “trifecta in only five” states.
But under the leadership of Ronna Romney-McDaniel, the niece of Never Trumper and Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, the RNC has struggled to capitalize on the momentum that saw Republicans dominate at the local, state and federal levels prior to her election as chairwoman of the RNC.
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President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Committee winter meeting at the Trump International Hotel on February 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
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