Term-limit backers seek state Supreme Court ruling

CHICAGO (AP) — Republican Bruce Rauner and other supporters of political term limits asked the Illinois Supreme Court Thursday to jump into the debate about whether the question can go to voters this fall, just a day before the deadline for approving the November ballot.

The Committee for Legislative Reform and Term Limits, headed by Rauner, the GOP candidate for governor, filed an emergency petition Thursday morning after a Wednesday appellate ruling that the initiative violated an Illinois Constitution dictate that changes to the Legislature be both “structural and procedural.”