Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County State's Attorney, Gina Vonderheide, sent this letter to the Illinois Attorney General seeking an opinion and legal advice on the matter of the County Board hiring private legal counsel and how to move forward with those actions already taken...
Illinois (ECWd) - The Illinois Supreme Court has denied Governor Pritzker's motion for an emergency motion for a supervisor order in the Darren Bailey lawsuit. A copy of the court's ruling can be downloaded at this link or viewed below. [pdf-embedder url="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Illinois-SC-Order.pdf" title="Illinois SC Order"] . Our work is funded...
Clay Co. (ECWd) Illinois Governor Pritzker finds himself once again looking down the pages of yet another lawsuit, again in Clay County. The suit was brought by Sonja Harrison, dba Visible Changes -VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST GOVERNOR JAY ROBERT PRITZKER. We are extremely...
Illinois (ECWd) - March 9th, 2020, Illinois Governor Pritzker declared a state of Emergency in Illinois. According to US News, Pritzker is quoted as saying, "In every step that we take our priority is getting ahead, and staying ahead in our response and doing so with...
Illinois (ECWd) - While courts are issuing orders across the country pointing out Executive Orders are violating people's Constitutional Rights, the question now becomes where is the US Department of Justice. Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to be a lawyer to read and comprehend...
Illinois (ECWd) - March 15, 2020, we laid out the applicable obligations of the IDPH and Local Health Departments to quarantine/isolate, and close businesses in this state as it related to the Governor's Executive Orders. Fast forward over 6 weeks, and the law of the land is...
Piatt Co. (ECWd) - We received multiple communications after a local citizen in Piatt County posted a meme pictured below on a Monticello Facebook discussion forum. When I addressed the misinformation with the poster, rather than recognize how misinformation does more harm than good when it...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Mchenry County Board meeting of April 21, 2020, was canceled by Chairman Jack Franks and then 1 minute later an Emergency Meeting was convened. We questioned the validity of the need for an emergency meeting by filing a request for review with...
Illinois (ECWd) -, For weeks the people have been demanding answers to questions related to the COVID-19 death numbers. Even more, questions were raised when it became evident that you could be eaten by an alligator and labeled as a COVID-19 death if you happened to...
Illinois (ECWd) - When any question of the legitimacy of powers comes into question you will find that the courts, more often than not, have spoken on matters either directly on point or very similar to the issue in question.  When there is no such case...
