The Illinois Supreme Court today appointed Associate Judge Sanjay T. Tailor to the countywide vacancy recently created by the death of Judge Diane Gordon Cannon.
The appointment is effective Monday, January 4, and expires December 5, 2022.
Currently serving in the Circuit Court's Chancery Division, Judge Tailor became an Associate Judge in 2003. Before becoming a judge, Tailor served as a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney, rising to the position of Deputy Supervisor of the Torts and Civil Rights Litigation Section. Licensed as an attorney in Illinois since 1991, Tailor began his legal career in private practice, working for the firm of Chapman and Cutler LLP. The Supreme Court's press release about the appointment is available here.
Pension-sweetener for Taylor who won’t run and will retire in 2022. Meanwhile Theis and Evans, who are in the same retention class, will have a press release where Taylor is praising them both. On a less cynical note, the appointment makes fiscal sense because a vacancy is filled without adding more people to the payroll. Well, except for the extra $500 Taylor will make per month. Oh, and the extra money the state will now have to pay him in pension. Theis did the same thing for Marianne Jackson and Sam Betar.
ReplyDeleteThe Irish female sharks are circling. Theis has thrown another dark meat male into the water.
ReplyDeleteSo when will the Supremes fill the other vacancies? We the people of the 6th Subcircuit deserve representation in the Circuit Court!
ReplyDeleteAhem, it's a new year and there are now multiple vacancies that we will be circulating petitions for at the end of this year. Now is the time for the "Who Sits Where Post" aka "the Hit List." Mind you, there are only three targets right now: Gordon, Lefevour-Smith and Taylor. We will be putting them on our agenda for the meeting at the Cork and Kerry on March 17, 2021.
ReplyDeleteEvans has reopened the Associate Judge application process, as there are 10 (oops, now with Taylor, 11) vacancies. Applications due early February. With many of them waiting to retire after they reopen post-COVID, this could be a REALLY big class like 1999. Get ready.
ReplyDeleteRich Lewandowski of Breaker Press was criminally charged. The IRS has issued subpoenas to multiple sitting judges and judicial candidates from the last 2 election cycles inquiring into moneys paid (but not reported) by Breaker Press. One judge in particular being grilled about his connections to Madigan and Worth Township. Greylord II is about to pop. Praise Jesus!
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ReplyDeleteIf Pritzker ordered all of the judges to take mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations and the courts to fully re-open by March 17, 2021, then a breath-taking number of judges would be retiring by April 15, 2021. They are lazy divas who have no clue what is going on in the world and care even less. 2022 is going to be crazier than all of the craziest past years combined. Prediction: 60 vacancies for 2022, combining countywide and subcircuits.
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@Anon 1/4 at 5:43 p.m. -- The Sun-Times has this story on Mr. Lewandowski's tax troubles. Given the nature of Lewandowski's business as a "licensed union [print] shop, I am not surprised that many judges and candidates sought out his services, nor, if I were one of those judges or candidates, would I be particularly concerned about subpoenas to verify the business sent his way. As long as the expenditures were duly noted by the judge or judicial candidate, said judge or candidate has nothing to worry about. The subpoenas would presumably be intended to simply provide substantiation for the government's contention that the income received by the taxpayer exceeded the income the taxpayer reported. Such subpoenas, assuming the accuracy of Anon's report, do not suggest that Greylord II is about to unfold. Not even close.
ReplyDeleteCould someone else have a problem arising from this situation? Of course. This is Cook County. Anything is possible. But no one should lose a moment's sleep merely because he or she had given this individual some printing business.
I gave him business. Yes, I got a subpoena. Yes, it was to confirm how much was spent for printing and signs. No, I am not losing sleep or remotely a target of anything. Yes, there is likely a Greylord 2 but it has nothing to do with tax evasion. Winter is coming.
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