Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law Tuesday mandating that any lawsuit challenging a state law or executive order must be filed in two deep-blue counties being Cook or Sangamon.

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Residents who want to redress their grievances with the state must take their plights to either Cook or Sangamon county after the Democrat-controlled state legislature passed the bill last month, according to the Chicago Tribune. Democrats argued the law would prevent plaintiffs from picking a county in which to file based on the likelihood of a favorable ruling. Democratic state Sen. Don Harmon said the law would still allow individuals to file cases against the state in local court if they do not intend to overturn the state law, according to WTVO.

The move to restrict lawsuits against state laws and executive orders comes three years after the start of the pandemic, during which Illinoisans brought several lawsuits win multiple counties challenging Pritzker’s executive orders.

Senate Republican leader John Curran said Tuesday that the move “is clearly an attempt by the governor and the attorney general to send constitutional challenges to courts that they believe will be more favorable to the Administration,” according to the Chicago Tribune. “In doing so, they are discrediting judges in suburban and downstate Illinois, and creating geographic barriers to citizens accessing our court system,” Curran added, per the outlet.

Republican State Rep. Dan Caulkins, who sued the state in January over its gun bans, lamented the law, according to the Tribune.

“They pass unconstitutional laws to make law-abiding citizens criminals, and then they make those same citizens travel hundreds of miles to a kangaroo court that they control. Tyrants are always the same, whether kings or lawless Chicago politicians,” he said, per the outlet.

Pritzker signed the budget today. He took time to correct the pay raise for legislators and lower it to a 5% increase instead of the illegal 5.5% the Dems had voted for themselves. He let the $300k grant to BLM Lake County stand even though the Marxist organization appears to be out of business and the leader has multiple felonies.

Pritzker Throws His Weight Around.
“The Democratic definition of efficient government in Illinois is now lawmaking without judicial review. Downstate courts are often the only place where progressive laws encounter any resistance. Mr. Pritzker has eliminated them by fiat.”
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The state also recently passed laws abolishing cash bail and banning certainsemi-automatic firearms and magazines.