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.
I look forward to your comments on this one, especially if you are a legislator.
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