Democratic justices won't recuse themselves in assault weapons case twill
Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case, which include state Rep. Dan Caulkins, a Decatur Republican, filed a motion March 30 asking Justices Mary Kay O'Brien and Elizabeth Rochford, both Democrats, to recuse themselves from the case or, in the alternative, that the court disqualify them from participating.
"The significance of the campaign contributions cannot be understated as often in politics, cash follows cash, especially when one considers the stake the Governor and/or Speaker were taking in the race," the motion stated."Thirty-Nine percent of Justice O'Brien's cash came from litigation stakeholders. Thirty-Six percent of Justice Rochford's cash came from litigation stakeholders.
"G-PAC congratulates the gun safety candidates who were victorious in the general election, particularly newly elected Supreme Court Justices Elizabeth Rochford and Mary Kay O'Brien as well as Senator-elect Rachel Ventura and Representatives-elect Diane Blair-Sherlock, Nabeela Syed, Mary Beth Canty and Laura Faver Dias," they said.
In Illinois, the decision on whether Supreme Court justices should recuse themselves from a case rests solely with the justices themselves, and both O'Brien and Rochford declined to do so. "The claim that a judge may not hear a case because a party may have some association with a public interest group or political party that did support or may have supported the judge's candidacy has no basis in the law, would be unworkable and is contrary to the very notion of an elected judiciary," Rochford quoted Karmeier as writing at the time.
Lawmakers passed the ban on more than 170 types of semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines during a legislative session in January just before new legislators were sworn in. Pritzker signed it into law within hours of its passage, making Illinois the ninth state to enact such a ban.
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