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 Lori Lightfoot, who does resemble a Batman villain, has gotten caught trying to use the Chicago Public School system to bolster her campaign.  Oddly enough, the ACLU is all over this like fur on a bear.

In a full statement, the state’s ACLU branch said, “The Lightfoot campaign’s email to Chicago Public School teachers urging them to offer extra credit to students as an incentive to volunteer on the Mayor’s re-election campaign is inappropriately coercive and raises First Amendment concerns.” 

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“The Supreme Court has made clear that government officials cannot use their office or power to coerce participation or to punish for lack of participation in political campaigns.” According to the nonprofit, the campaign’s actions “harken back to the worst days of the Chicago political machine.”

Of course the CPS has always been another branch of the Chicago machine government and has controlled the populace by controlling when students go back to school–they also like to keep things spicy by going on strike at odd times just to make sure parents know who is in charge.

The only weird thing is that this was out in the open.