The Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening has completed its evaluations of candidates seeking retention on the November ballot. The final "grids" follow. Click on any image to enlarge or clarify.
Now-former Judge Mauricio Araujo was the only retention candidate unanimously rejected by all 12 of the Alliance bar groups. Judge Patricia Manila Martin, who told the Alliance she was retiring, but did not withdraw from the ballot in time, was not rated at all.
After Araujo, the judge receiving the highest number of negative Alliance ratings was Judge Jackie Marie Portman-Brown. Seven of the 12 Alliance bar groups recommend a "no" vote on her retention. John J. Mahoney received negative ratings from four of the Alliance bar groups. Judge Daniel J. Kubasiak drew negative ratings from three Alliance bar groups. Two judges received "no" recommendations from two Alliance bar groups, Diana Rosario and Laura Marie Sullivan. Judge Michael P. Toomin received a negative rating from one Alliance bar group. All the rest of the retention judges received unanimously favorable recommendations from every one of the 12 bar associations in the Alliance issuing ratings for those candidates.
The Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening is comprised of the Arab American Bar Association (AABAR) (the newest Alliance member), the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago (AABA), the Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), the Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), the Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), the Decalogue Society of Lawyers (DSL), the Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois (HBA), the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA), the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC), the Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois (PRBA), and the Women's Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), working collaboratively to improve the process of screening judicial candidates in Cook County, Illinois.
The Alliance does not include the Chicago Bar Association (CBA), which maintains its own evaluation process. (Click here for a post on the CBA's retention evaluations.)
I express my thanks and appreciation to Alliance coordinator Joyce Williams who compiled and kept updating the Alliance ratings.
Ooooooooohhhhhhhh another useless grid that the voters don't understand. I look at these grids and know that they are bull. How? Because they can't all be this great. Don't tell me that only 2-3 out of 62 are this bad. No. There are more; much, much more. Vote NO on them all and let God decide their fates.
ReplyDeleteOh good, the mouth-breathers from SCC are back.
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ReplyDeleteChoose Kind. And vote NO.
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