©2015 Bloomberg News NS09B9SYF01V (Bloomberg) — A plan to ease Chicago’s $20 billion public- worker pension deficit is illegal, an Illinois judge ruled, leaving the city vulnerable to another credit downgrade. Immediately after the ruling, Standard & Poor’s said it would probably lower the city’s rating again if a solution

published Apr 8th 2016, 10:58 am, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) —If I tell you a California judge struck down the addition of a Christian cross to the Los Angeles County seal, that probably sounds like a good example of the separation of church and state. If I tell you