While today’s ruling is a temporary win, we know the President will not concede and only ramp up his attacks.

President Trump’s illegal birthright citizenship order was not just an attack on our Constitution—it was an attack on millions of Americans who have immigrant heritage.

There is nothing more fundamental in a democracy than the right to vote, whether that be in person at the polls or with a mail-in ballot.

And thank you to the Excel Center for their work and commitment to Illinois’ first adult high school. This school was built on a simple but important idea: that it’s never too late to invest in someone’s potential and give them a real…

Now, this President can fire whomever he perceives as his enemy at these agencies without so much as citing cause.

Meeting with President Zelenskyy was a powerful reminder of what is at stake as Ukraine continues to defend its people, its sovereignty, and the principles that underpin transatlantic security.

It was great to visit Chestnut Health Systems Dental Clinic in Bloomington—one of the clinics helping to expand access to quality, affordable dental care for Illinoisans.

Whether responding to emerging viral threats like Ebola or RSV, preventing violence and opioid overdoses, or ensuring effective emergency response to natural disasters, public health departments in Illinois play a vital role in protecting…

To preserve the right to vote for every eligible American, Congress must take action to protect this precious right, including passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and strengthen the protections of the Voting…

The Supreme Court just overturned well-established precedent to greenlight Donald Trump’s threats to independent federal agencies.

This ruling is an affront to good governance and the point of ‘independent’ federal agencies in the first place.

While today’s Supreme Court ruling was a victory, voting rights are still under attack.

As we see in Sudan and Burma, oppressive regimes are mercilessly targeting civilians, using many of the same tactics from Rwanda more than 30 years ago.

The open road, and the rest stops along the way, should be accessible to all who use it—truck drivers, Illinoisans, and visitors alike.

Sadly, the United States today is making the same mistakes that it did in Rwanda, turning away rather than turning towards.

By directing adjudicators to treat adjustment of status as an 'extraordinary form of relief' and by creating a policy preference for consular processing, the memorandum undermines the very purposes Congress sought to advance.

The United States failed to act and prevent the Rwandan genocide—and during my stay, I reflected on how we, as a nation, could strive to never make that same mistake again.

Putin is at his weakest position in years and real sustained pressure can finally bring this war to a close.