Chicago politicians don't seem to understand what our Constitution is all about--and it will cost taxpayers dearly.
From AP:
Chicago lost its legal battle to keep gun stores out of the city, and now it must pick up the tab for nearly $1 million in legal fees that the winners spent on the case.Chicago taxpayers face an enormous burden in paying for public worker pension debt--and its leaders just pissed away nearly $1 million.
U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chang said in a one-page ruling Thursday that he found fees associated with the lawsuit filed in 2010 by the Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers "reasonable." Chang, who in January declared Chicago's decades-old ban on gun stores unconstitutional, ordered the city to pay attorneys' fees and costs totaling $940,000.
The order is the latest chapter in the city's long-running battle to keep guns out of its residents' hands, after a U.S. Supreme Court decision rendered the city's decades-old ban on handguns unenforceable and a federal judge's decision declared the state's last-in-the nation ban on concealed weapons unconstitutional.
Thank God I live in the suburbs.
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