12/13/2013
Lily Oberman
Editorial assistant
Reboot Illinois
Labor unions are gearing up to sue the state for enacting a pension reform bill they say violates the state constitution’s protection of pension benefits. The case ultimately will be decided by the Illinois Supreme Court.
After their initial election to the state’s highest court, Supreme Court justices face voter retention decisions every 10 years. Without regular re-election races, sitting justices don’t typically receive large campaign contributions from unions on a regular basis. There have been exceptions, however. For example, unions threw their support behind Justice Thomas Kilbride, a Democrat, when he was the target of an anti-retention campaign that aimed to unseat him in 2010.
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