If you've landed here from the March 1 edition of Chicago Public Square, click here to go to an updated version of this story. Stuff moves fast at this time of the election cycle....
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told you they would be forthcoming, and now they've come....
Herewith the first edition of the Alliance "grids" showing all presently available evaluations by each of the 13 Alliance bar groups for each and every Cook County judicial candidate (click to enlarge or clarify any image):
The Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening is comprised of the
Arab American Bar Association (AABAR), the
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area (AABA), the
Black Men Lawyers’ Association (BMLA), 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),
Chicago’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association (LAGBAC), the
Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA), and
Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI), working collaboratively to improve the process of screening judicial candidates in Cook County, Illinois.
The grids are presumably self-explanatory for many FWIW readers, but for the benefit of our newcomers, here is the ratings key:
And, finally, a statement by the Alliance about its ratings: "Judicial candidates are rated by the Alliance members based on detailed information supplied by candidates, a background check by trained lawyers/investigators, and interviews of each candidate. Ratings reflect the Alliance's opinion of whether candidates have the necessary qualifications for judicial service or ascension to a higher office and are not a reflection of the candidates' abilities as lawyers or judges."
What do the blank spots mean? I don’t see that explained in the rating key.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the Bar Associations have officially jumped the shark. They had a good run. It is a story as old as time. They became victims of their own hubris.
ReplyDelete@Anon 2/29 at 5:55 p.m. -- The blank spots are areas where either no evaluation has yet been reported (that's the explanation for most of them) or where an appeal process is ongoing. Either way... no final determination... yet. That's why this is only the first look at the grids.
ReplyDeleteThere will be updates.
But then those spots should be gray not blank?
DeleteI see some red marks for Liam Kelly.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why?
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