#executive-orders

#executive-orders

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed into law a measure that requires lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of executive orders or state laws to be filed in either Cook or Sangamon county.The Democratic-controlled state legislature passed the bill along party lines last month.Democrats who supported the legislation said it was necessary to prevent people with a grievance against the state from selecting the county in which to file a lawsuit based on where they think they can get a favorable ruling.

Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot used her last weekday as the city's chief executive to issue a flurry of orders aimed at cementing some of her key initiatives that could force her successor to stay the course on some of her spending plans.The executive orders that will be inherited Monday by Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson span subjects from replenishing city pension funds to burnishing immigrant rights.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who gained national recognition as White House press secretary in the Trump administration, was sworn in Tuesday as Arkansas' 47th governor.She becomes the state's first female governor and assumes a seat her father, Mike Huckabee, once held.I did not seek this office to be the first anything, but I ran to make Arkansas first in everything, Sanders said from the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol.

The new Republican governor of Arkansas, Sarah Sanders, said the move to ban critical race theory in public schools in her state was a preventative measure.It's incredibly important that we do things to protect the students in our state, she told Fox News Sunday.We have to make sure that we are not indoctrinating our kids and that these policies and these ideas never see the light of day.