Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al.

Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Right to Fair Hearing and Guarantees Clause, Article IV, Sec. 4:

1. Does a self-evaluative review applying no objective standards under Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009) by a Justice(s) on the state’s highest court challenged for disqualification deny the basic due process right to a fair hearing under the Fourteenth Amendment when the Justice(s) participated in the consideration of this case involving the constitutionality of the Illinois Assault Weapons Partial Ban1 given the 2.6 Million Dollars disproportionate campaign contributions at the immediately preceding election from Defendants, leaders of the legislative and executive branches, directly to the campaign funds for the Justices, shared publicly represented commitment with Defendants to ban assault weapons when the General Assembly convened after the election, and when the issues in the case required the Court to judicially review the constitutionality of the process Defendants employed to enact the assault weapon ban?

2. Does a litigant’s basic due process right to a fair hearing before the judiciary, including the appearance of a fair hearing, under the Fourteenth Amendment and the public’s interest in the appearance of an independent judiciary prevail over any First Amendment 1 As hereafter defined.