Donald G. Adams v. Daniel Walker, A/K/A Dan Walker, Individually and as Governor of the State of Illinois

The majority opinion as I read it reaches the conclusion that a lawyer, possessing the same constitutional rights as other citizens,1 who is summarily removed before the completion of his appointed term of office from a governmental position “vested with part of the *1011sovereignty of. the state,” and who is told by the chief executive of the state that his removal is, inter alia,, because of malfeasance in office is somehow less stigmatized than is an adult resident of Hartford, Wisconsin, whose inability to hold her liquor2 is the subject of a public notice. I cannot agree with the reasoning or…