early release https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:52:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg early release https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Out-of-Control Violence and Chaos in Chicago https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/08/out-of-control-violence-and-chaos-in-chicago/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:00:34 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=14880 Written by David E. Smith

On Monday morning we were greeted with more alarming news from the City of Chicago: 100 people arrested and 13 Chicago Police Officers injured after groups of rioters unleashed chaos, smashed windows, and looted stores. They targeted Chicago’s Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of the city’s downtown. That news comes in addition to the “other” news that at least 35 people were shot and 3 killed in weekend gang violence.… Continue Reading

]]> 14880 U.S. House Committee Passes Dangerous Jailbreak Bill https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/05/u-s-house-committee-passes-dangerous-jailbreak-bill/ Mon, 14 May 2018 12:28:14 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=9053 Written by Daniel Horowitz

Nowhere is the hard turn to the left within our body politic so evident as in Republicans signing on to the “Willie Horton soft on crime” agenda. Despite the president’s insistence that we get tougher, not weaker, on crime and drug trafficking, Jared Kushner and the Koch-funded phony right-leaning organizations won’t stop pushing that agenda. And it appears that even the conservatives who haven’t gotten roped into this extreme and dangerous agenda are ill-quipped to push back against it.… Continue Reading

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