All for Justice, an independent expenditure political action committee, failed to file timely campaign reports as required by state law and didn’t disclose the bulk of its $7.3 million in spending until after the election.
A political committee, funded in part by Senate President Don Harmon’s campaign that helped expand the Democratic majority on the Illinois Supreme Court, failed to file timely campaign reports as required by state law and didn’t disclose the bulk of its $7.3 million in spending until after the election.
All for Justice was formed in August 2022 as an independent expenditure political action committee, which can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose candidates but cannot coordinate its spending with the contenders it backs. In contrast, independent expenditure groups that funded the Republican candidates filed the required ongoing spending reports.
And with its first expenditure of over $100,000, it technically should have filed a statement on Sept. 29 that its spending exceeded campaign limits — though the spending of the candidates and other committees had lifted contribution caps in both races. Had the All for Justice spending been made known on time, Millner said, the Burke campaign would have made the public aware of the extra money being poured into Democratic campaigns and that probably would have generated more GOP volunteers and contributions.On documents filed with the State Board of Elections, Luke Casson is listed as chair and treasurer of All for Justice. Casson is a founding partner of the Andreou & Casson law firm.
“Everybody is supposed to follow the rules,” the Senate president said. “If something isn’t disclosed in a timely manner, it should be corrected immediately. And if the Board of Elections needs new tools to make sure this happens more intuitively and more timely, I am happy to work with them to achieve the shared goal of meaningful campaign finance transparency.”
Wins by their Republican opponents would have flipped the partisan balance from a 4-3 Democratic majority to a 4-3 Republican edge. Another nearly $3.4 million came in to All for Justice from organized labor groups, while lawyers, law firms and related entities provided more than $2.3 million to the group.
When all individual candidate and independent spending is tallied together, however, the All for Justice spending made a significant difference.
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