ANOTHER WILD ONE GOES CUBS’ WAY AT WRIGLEY CHICAGO SPORTS EXPANDED SPORTS COVERAGE SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Monday, July 2, 2018 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com 2 who could push high court to the right Notre Dame grad, D.C. They emerged from a list of court, he said. publicans he was a conservative. more than two dozen potential Unlike in decades past, when Souter was careful and cautious appellate judge emerge nominees put together by the presidents and their top lawyers as a judge and devoted to prece- among top candidates conservative Federalist Society scrambled to find a qualified dent. But his leanings were mod- and Heritage Foundation. On Fri- nominee when a vacancy sud- erate to liberal. In 1992, Souter By David G. Savage day, Trump told reporters he is denly arose, the Federalist Society along with Justices Anthony Ken- Washington Bureau considering five to seven candi- list is the result of careful screen- nedy and Sandra Day O’Connor dates and that two of them are ing. A team of lawyers read and joined to uphold the right to WASHINGTON — President women. analyzed everything written or abortion announced two decades Donald Trump is expected to Barrett Kavanaugh The list was Trump’s idea and it said by the candidates. earlier in Roe v. Wade. move quickly to nominate a re- has proven effective, said Leonard Their unofficial motto is “No Conservatives are determined placement for retiring Justice Coney Barrett, a former Notre Leo, a Federalist Society official more Souters,” a reference to never to make the same mistake Anthony Kennedy’s soon-to-be- Dame law professor and recent who is advising the White House. now-retired Justice David Souter, again. vacant Supreme Court seat, and Trump appointee to the 7th Cir- It told Republican voters that he who was nominated by President Barrett, 46, is a newcomer with two leading candidates are veter- cuit in Chicago, and appellate was serious about appointing only George H.W. Bush in 1990. The an Washington, D.C., Judge Amy Judge Brett Kavanaugh. reliable conservatives to the high White House team assured Re- Turn to Court, Page 10 “It’s people like him who are the real heroes.” — Former Chicago Bulls player Joakim Noah Court sows doubt over pregnancy centers law Ruling could affect Illinois requirement for abortion information By Angie Leventis Lourgos Chicago Tribune Hope Life Center in western Illinois provides unplanned preg- nancy counseling and ultrasounds for about five to 10 women a week, with a mission to “erase abortion from Illinois one woman and one child at time,” according to its website. So Executive Director Debbie Case was alarmed by a change last year in the state’s so-called right- of-conscience law, requiring health care providers to inform pregnant patients of all available medical options, including abor- tion. She said the pregnancy center even shut down for part of 2017 because its physician feared JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE potential repercussions of violat- Derrick House, right, observes a crime scene in 2017 with Fred Seaton, a supervising outreach worker at the Institute for Nonviolence. ing the law, which is now tempo- rarily blocked by the courts. Case and other anti-abortion advocates across the state hailed Tuesday’s ruling by the U.S. Former death row inmate Supreme Court against a similar law in California on First Amend- ment grounds, hoping the deci- sion will strengthen their legal battle in Illinois. sought to stop bloodshed “We’re definitely encouraged,” said Case, whose center is in Ex-gang leader who became a violence interrupter dies of natural causes, group says Sterling, about two hours west of Chicago. “We are engaging in our services specifically because we By William Lee | Chicago Tribune according to his friends and co-workers. want to prevent abortions. … The House came to this new life after a brief stint on death row government is mandating us to do n the 1970s and early 1980s, young Derrick House was a and 20 years behind bars for a grisly quadruple slaying over a an act that is morally wrong, from tough, fearless figure along Chicago Avenue in the West $300 drug debt. Three women and a man were stabbed and shot, our perspective.” Garfield Park community who commanded respect their bodies then soaked in kerosene and set on fire. The high court’s 5-4 decision — I wherever he went, his friends recall. After his conviction was overturned by the state Supreme considered a blow to proponents At a time when the storied Vice Lords street gang controlled Court, House took a plea bargain and was sent to prison. Friends of reproductive freedom — came nearly all of the West Side, House — a stout, intimidating, yet say the father of three dedicated himself to the community after the day before Supreme Court charming and approachable chieftain — could compel order he was released. Justice Anthony Kennedy an- from even the angriest young men on the block. In talking about him, they don’t dwell on the details of the nounced his retirement, which But in recent years, he walked the West Side as a graying murders but instead speak of how the experience profoundly further encouraged abortion op- violence interrupter, easily spotted at crime scenes in his skull changed him. “He already had a big heart, but it grew more ponents while unnerving those cap and neon yellow jacket. He still had his imposing street who support abortion rights. reputation, but now he used it to keep young men from violence, Turn to Interrupter, Page 7 “President (Donald) Trump has promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a Fireworks still illegal in written statement. “That promise state, but injuries rising Turn to Abortion, Page 8 Officials warn about ringing, I was seeing orange,” Pryor said in a recent interview. growing danger ahead “When I finally opened my eyes, I Trump says he’ll of July Fourth holiday saw my fingers were all broken up and hanging, and I rushed to delay NAFTA deal By Elyssa Cherney the ER.” Chicago Tribune Pryor, who is 29, lost most of until after midterms two fingers. His thumb and other President Donald Trump says he For Marcus Pryor, the July 4 two fingers were salvaged only won’t sign a revised North Ameri- holiday began with seemingly because a surgeon buried them in can Free Trade Agreement until innocent fun three years ago his abdomen, where they could after the fall midterm elections, a when he met up with a friend, recover in nutrient-rich tissue, move aimed at reaching a better went to a park near his South Side before reattaching them to his deal with Canada and Mexico. home and started lighting some hand. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Nation & World, Page 9 fireworks. Pryor’s accident was part of Errant fireworks explode at Washington Park on July 4, 2016, in Chi- But it wouldn’t take long for what officials say is a growing cago. Officials say fireworks injuries have gone up in recent years. things to go horribly wrong. danger on the Independence Day As Pryor was igniting the holiday as potent fireworks — like only increases when people mis- ignited. It was a large mortar in a Bye again, Cleveland: shells and hurling them into the Roman candles, various grades of use the explosives. PVC tube, 24 inches long and 4 air, a small, circular firework firecrackers and more powerful Pryor, after all, was one of the inches in diameter. The mortar LeBron agrees to join exploded in his hand. mortars obtained on the black lucky ones. David Griffin, 42, died went off in his face while he was “It had blinded me, and I was market — become more available. last year when he checked on a Lakers in $154M deal deaf for a minute. My ears were The chance of catastrophic injury fireworks tube that had not Turn to Fireworks, Page 4 Chicago Sports Chicago Weather Center: Complete $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 elsewhere Tom Skilling’s forecast High 85 Low 65 forecast on back page of A+E section 171st year No. 183 © Chicago Tribune 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, July 2, 2018 JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2014 An old illegal dumping ground on the West Side was one of the sites proposed for the Obama Presidential Center. Obama center should look for ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK ways of boosting West Side too having a presidential center in the roots to the table, not a lot of plat- OF THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX: A city. It can’t happen, though, without forms that can do that like the Obama DECADE-BY-DECADE HISTORY’ a joint effort by the foundation, the Foundation.” city and the residents themselves. 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