Chicago Way w/John Kass: The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Illinois’ judiciary
Chicago Way w/John Kass (01/12/26): Thom Serafin, long-time political strategist, Communicator in Chief of Serafin & Associates, & newly collaborating with Mercury Illinois, joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin with some much needed perspective on who are the Cook County Bar Association & the Chicago Council of Lawyers, and why are they upset over a JohnKassNews.com column & Chicago Way Podcast. (Hat tip to CWB for covering this fiasco) Plus, Kasso wonders if Chicagoans can come together over their hatred for the Packers?
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Public and the citizens be damned! By the reaction of the bar association and the Preckwinkle sycophants, John, you and Judge Brown are definitely “flying over the target.” Public, they have ruled you can not carry on public transportation, you are at the mercy of the criminal animals and their their judicial masters. How dare you expose it.
Susan Ortiz before being a judge was a run of the mill defense lawyer who focused on traffic tickets and misdemeanors, however she had the most qualifiers if one wants to be a Cook County Circuit Court judge, not a legal scholar, but was a Hispanic and female and Democratic backed.
Better to know the judge than to know the law. (Irish proverb.)
A guy was just charged with shooting two individuals, one of who died, on a CTA train a couple days ago. The murderer was attempting to stab a man when a spectator pulled out a handgun to stop him. The gun holder dropped the gun and the Stabber picked it up and shot him and shot and killed the guy he was trying to stab, killing him. Not everyone carrying a gun should be allowed to carry a gun, especially if they don’t know weapon retention. Then again…maybe we need to ban knives…also.
Ban vehicles in Minnesota.
How about ban criminals from riding the CTA and walking the streets. Put them in and keep them in jail.
I practiced law as a Cook County trial attorney for 35 years. I can confirm that, among lawyers, very few, and I mean VERY FEW judges were considered “wise jurists.” I remember one judge who made sure that his Harvard diploma was prominently displayed in his chambers- but out on the bench, he would consistently make the worse decisions and rulings possible. We called him “the dumbest ‘smart’ person in Cook County.” Most attorneys know that judges are purely political animals, appointed for that reason and not for their legal brilliance.