Thursday, June 03, 2021

Yes, the Supreme Court has a redesigned website

I noticed it yesterday, as at least one commenter did, too. The Supreme Court's press release about the new site can be found here.

Pending contradiction by OED, or at least by Lexis, I will submit that this press release probably marks the first use of the word "mega-menu" by a state's highest reviewing court.

The commenter (named "Anonymous," to absolutely no one's surprise) gripes, correctly, that, while the new site purports to list all Cook County "at large" judges (i.e., countywide judges) and "resident" judges (i.e., subcircuit judges), the latter are no longer idenfitied by subcircuit, but only alphabetically. This, certainly, will make the process of guessing vacancies before they are publicly announced (seemingly as late in the election cycle as the law allows) that much more difficult.

But, perhaps, applied Kremlinology may no longer be required: The new website has a Judicial Vacancies page.

That's the good news. The bad news is that, so far, the relevant sub-page is blank.

But... who knows? The new website is just a couple of days old. Perhaps this public information will be soon be publicly available.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And that vacancies page will remain empty until five seconds before they announce the replacement. And what, no post about the June 28, 2022 primary? Really, Jack? We want your insight.