The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Bob Thomas, former placekicker for the Chicago Bears, seemed more than ready Wednesday to tee up the state’s new pension law and boot it into oblivion.
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“If the court holds that the state can invoke its police powers to violate core constitutional guarantees to respond to an emergency that at least arguably the state itself created, then aren’t we giving the state the power to modify its contractual obligations whenever it wants? For instance, the state could simply fail to fund the pension systems and then claim an emergency, correct?” Thomas asked
Illinois is in bad financial shape.
