Don’t exempt judges from pension reform

I find it appalling that our state legislature and governor are exempting judges from any pension reform action. Their reasoning is that now, they can be impartial in their review of any new challenged pension legislation that will come before them.

That is totally absurd and un-American. Since when did we in America exempt a specific group of people from the law? We elected judges to be impartial. Their job demands them to be impartial without any special favors. Our politicians now want to grant judges special favors by exempting them from any pension reform. Are they trying to sway judges to vote any Constitutional challenges to pension reform their way?

How does this reflect Quinn’s and Madigan’s shared responsibility in pension reform?

Richard Niemaszyk

Elgin