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GURNEE, Ill. — Three people were reportedly shot in the parking lot of Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, prompting a heavy police presence.
According to a police source, the injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening. No one is in custody.
The amusement park, which closes at 8 p.m., was evacuated.
WGN News spoke with Laurie Walker and her daughter, Grace, who were inside the park when the shooting incident occurred. Walker said they were waiting in line for the ‘Ricochet’ in the southwest area of the park around 7:50 p.m. when she noticed people running in a panic.
“There is an active shooter, get down, get down,” Walker recalled someone shouting. “We didn’t know what was going on, so we get down.”
Walker and her daughter climbed over two fences to get “out of plain view sight,” where she could call her husband. After hiding out for a short while, Walker says she was able to leave the park.
Authorities told WGN News that law enforcement officials are actively searching the area to ensure everyone is located and accounted for.
A WGN News is headed to the scene and working on learning more.
This is a developing story. Stay with WGN News for updates.
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Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called “large portions” of the Republican Party “very sick” in an interview recapping her failed bid to stay in office.
Cheney, asked by ABC News what she thought her loss said about the Republican Party, said it signified former President Donald Trump’s stranglehold on the party.
“It says that clearly [Trump’s] hold is very strong among some portions of the Republican Party. My state of Wyoming is not necessarily a representative sample of the party,” Cheney said.
Wyoming is one of the reddest states in the union.
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Cheney continued, “I think it says a couple of things. I think it says people continue to believe the lie. They continue to believe what he’s saying, which is dangerous.”
Rep. Liz Cheney looks on during her primary election night party in Jackson, Wyoming, Aug. 16, 2022.
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Cheney has been the most prominent Republican critic of Trump since he left office. She has used her position on the Jan. 6 House select committee to lambast Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman defeated Cheney by 37 points on Tuesday.
“I think it also tells you that large portions of our party, including the leadership of our party, is very sick,” she claimed.
Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman speaks during her primary election night party in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Aug. 16, 2022.
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Cheney will need some of those voters if she decides to run for president in 2024, as she has said she is thinking about doing.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
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Republican Party leader McCarthy said earlier this week that he believes he’ll be the next speaker of the House.
“I believe so. We’ll win the majority and I’ll be speaker. Yes,” McCarthy said in an exclusive interview with Fox News on Monday as he pointed toward the likely regaining of the House majority by the GOP in November’s midterm elections.
Cheney, however, doesn’t think he should be.
“I don’t believe he should be speaker of the House and I think that’s been very clear,” she said.
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The Justice Department fought release of the memo for years, arguing that it was part of a deliberative process advising Barr on what to do in response to Mueller’s report. However, judges concluded that at the time the memo was written, Barr had already decided not to charge Trump, so the issues hashed out in the memo were theoretical and not linked to any pending decision.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal watchdog group, filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act three years ago in an effort to make the memo public.
The Justice Department lost the first round in the access case in front of a District Court judge, who ruled that the agency’s claims that the memo was part of some kind of charging decision was “disingenuous” because that decision had already been made.
On appeal, department lawyers changed course and argued that the memo helped shape the public statements Barr would give to explain why he concluded the evidence was insufficient to support a criminal charge — even if Trump were not president.
However, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled last week that argument about the memo being part of deliberations around a communications effort was surfaced too belatedly to be considered.
The Justice Department had the option to ask the full bench of the D.C. Circuit to rehear the case or to seek review at the Supreme Court, but officials indicated Wednesday that they’d decided to pass up those options.
In the memo that triggered the disclosure fight, Engel and O’Callaghan concluded that Trump’s conduct primarily reflected a frustration with the Mueller probe and what he perceived to be the politics behind it, as well as news reports they said Trump genuinely believed were flawed. They also suggested that Trump’s exhortations to some of his top allies against “flipping” were meant to prevent them from delivering false testimony — not to conceal the truth.
The officials repeatedly underscored that Mueller had not found sufficient evidence to charge any underlying crime, which they said weighed against the possibility that Trump had violated the obstruction statutes.
“In the absence of an underlying offense, the most compelling inference in evaluating the President’s conduct is that he reasonably believed that the Special Counsel’s investigation was interfering with his governing agenda,” Engel and O’Callaghan wrote.
Engel would later become a key point of resistance to Trump’s effort to use the Justice Department to help subvert the 2020 election. Engel was one of three Trump-era Justice Department witnesses to testify at a public hearing of the Jan. 6 select committee and discussed his threat to resign, along with other top department officials, if Trump had gone through with a plan to replace the department’s leadership with figures who would support his attempts to stay in power.
An Office of Legal Counsel opinion issued in 1973 — and reaffirmed in 2000 — concluded that federal criminal charges were impermissible while a president is in office.
However, some legal advocates have urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to revisit Barr’s decision not to charge Trump. They note that the Justice Department has generally taken the view that former presidents could be subject to prosecution for acts committed while in office, although it has never happened.
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