Group continues fight to put term limits on ballot
Via The State Journal-Register
CHICAGO — A group that wants to put legislative term limits on the November ballot told an Illinois appeals court Thursday that voters deserve a chance to approve a measure the General Assembly never will pass on its own.
The Committee for Legislative Reform and Term Limits gathered about 600,000 signatures for an initiative that would limit legislators to eight years in office, change the size of the state House and Senate and make it tougher to override a governor’s veto, among other things. But a Cook County judge in June ruled the effort unconstitutional after a lawsuit was filed to try to keep the question off the ballot.
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