Illinois Supreme Court says studies do not always matter
According to a March 21 ruling from the Illinois Supreme Court, there are times when the legislature’s judgment in drafting a statute “may be based on regional speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data and is not subject to judicial factfinding.” This statement could be scary to a non-legal person.
In this ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that residency restrictions are constitutional.
As FAC begins to look at taking down low hanging fruit in the various Florida counties, and ultimately attacking the elevated residency restrictions some counties have, should we be concerned about this ruling? Yes, it is not the same as if it had been a ruling out of Alabama or Georgia, but let us look to our legal pundits to analyze this ruling as to its effect on future lawsuits.
I recently read that Illinois is considered by many to be among the top three worst states to live in if you have a past sex offense. Some of our members from Illinois agree with this statement.
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…there are times when the legislature’s judgment in drafting a statute may be based on regional speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data and is not subject to judicial factfinding…
That is 6 people with Law Degrees who passed the bar, supposedly, who are so focused on coming up with a pre-ordained ruling they can’t see the forest for the trees. That ruling now hangs over any law the Illionois legislature may come up no matter how crazy it is and I am not just talking about SORNA and Residency Restrictions. I hope they plan to try an appeal to the Federal Courts.
Illinois is a rogue state, period. It has it’s good parts and bad parts. Sex offense convictions are bad parts. Where as Cook County can be lenient, you go to places in the cornfields and it’s a different ballgame. Anyone who moves there from out of state is automatically a sexual predator. This goes on the national registry, and you are twice as screwed as if you would have never moved there in the first place. Actually, If you move to any state, you are worse off if you would have just stayed in Florida, because the National Registry is used in background checks, and if you moved to 4 different states, it lists each separate state you are registered in. That’s not fair at all.
Using the Court’s rationale, we’d still be burning “witches” and drowning innocent people accused of being “witches”