Tomorrow is the date that the
US Court of
Appeals set for
Attorney General Lisa Madigan to file her update on
whether or not she is going to appeal my victory, from
January of this year, in the
Moment of Silence case.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan
That's the case in which my
daughter, Dawn, successfully challenged, in federal
court, the Illinois
Student Prayer Act, which required public school
teachers to stop teaching during instructional time so
that the Christian kids could pray without being
interrupted by what they were supposed to be doing in
school, which is to study.
Lisa has sought several extensions of time to decide
whether to appeal. It's time to make a decision, Lisa.
There actually has been a significant development
since Lisa asked for her latest extension.
Since Lisa filed for
her most recent extension, the Illinois General Assembly
proposed and passed that
Capital Bill that I've been writing about, which
Governor Quinn
signed three weeks ago.
The reason that the Capital
Bill is so significant, here, is that the hundreds of
unconstitutional grants, contained in the Bill, to
houses of worship, parochial schools and religious
ministries, demonstrates that the Illinois General
Assembly has absolutely no intention, whatsoever, of
complying with the
Constitution of the State of Illinois. So, it's not
like the General Assembly thought that what they were
doing with the Student Prayer Act was constitutional.
The reality is,
the Legislature could care less if anything they do is
constitutional. As
Speaker of the House Mike Madigan's spokesman, Steve
Brown, famously told me on The
Rob Sherman Show on WJJG Chicago, two years ago when
the Illinois House was considering over-riding
ex-Governor Blagojevich's veto of the Student Prayer
Act, "The Members of the House vote in favor of whatever
Bills that they like, without regards to whether or not
the Bill is constitutional. If the Bill is
unconstitutional, they let the courts worry about it."
Steve Brown is also the guy
who
bitterly complained, last week, in the (Springfield)
State Journal-Register,
"Who made Rob Sherman king?"
Tomorrow is also the day that candidates, such
as Attorney General Lisa Madigan, can begin circulating
nominating petitions for the 2010 elections. Either you
are going to launch your campaign for re-election by
making a fool of yourself, Lisa, by defending an
obviously unconstitutional law, or you're going to let
it go and recognize that the Members of the General
Assembly do not take the constitution seriously.
Quite frankly, my daughter, Dawn, is tired of
baby-sitting the General Assembly. She wants to spend
her time, this summer, chasing boys and having boys
chase her, not chasing after scofflaw legislators
behaving badly to get them to comply with our state
constitution.
Dawn and I will continue to
provide very close adult supervision to the Illinois
General Assembly because, apparently, we are the only
ones in the entire
State of Illinois who are both willing to take on
that challenge, and have the ability, skill and
smarts to successfully do it, Steve Brown or no Steve
Brown.
It's good to be King.
