The State of Illinois has compelled us into consent, and they are using intimidation factors to keep business shuttered.
In this special Cities 92.9 presentation, we have a roundtable discussion with five Central Illinois lawyers to have been studying the Illinois Shelter-in-Place mandate. They have determined that the Governor’s general direction to shelter-in-place is not enough and that small business has not been legally shut down but has been compelled to comply.
When a government takes away your rights, your freedoms, we are provided “due process.” There has to be a process in place to take away these freedoms, and the government has not been following these processes. Take for example the seat belt. The seat belt requirement is proposed, debated upon, and passed into law. Compare that to a mask; the seat belt has passed through proper legislative channels, but the mask is coming down from an executive order; implementation from an unlawful executive order. The lack of due process in Governor J.B. Pritzker’s mandate makes the mandate unlawful.
The bottom line
Speak to your business’ attorney
Be responsible for public health
Open your doors
If you don’t open your doors, you don’t trigger your rights.
We appreciate the time and insight that the lawyers have put into their research and for sharing that information with us. The attorneys who appear in the program:
Chris Gramm – Stivers & Gramm, LLC, Bloomington, IL (309) 662-1090
Kevin Hammer – Hammer Law, Clinton IL ( 217) 935-7063
Stephanie L. Scoles – Law Offices of Stephanie L. Scoles, P.C., Clinton, IL (217) 935-0041
Todd A. Roseberry – Schwulst & Roseberry, Bloomington, IL (309) 829-3636
Gene C. Brucker – Brucker Law, Bloomington IL (309) 829-9400
TO REACH THE TEAM, email DueProcess@Cities929.com.