His Judgement Cometh and That Right Soon
By The Honorable Judge James R. Brown
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
The Court of Common Sense is finally back in Session after far too many years of adjournment. This Honorable Court hereby declares to all the good, decent, fair-minded and loyal readers of the legendary columnist John Kass and to anyone else who is interested, that there is again “Probable Cause” for renewed faith in the American Justice system.
Justice awaits those who brazenly and viciously demonized the 77 million Trump supporters. Accountability, in one form or another, is coming to the George Soros-funded progressive prosecutors who waged “lawfare” against President Trump. Prosecutors engaging in lawfare sent shockwaves not only through the legal community but also through our system of justice.
As President Trump said so many times during the campaign, “the only thing that stands between You and Them, is Me”. That statement was spot-on accurate.
It reminds me of a famous quote from one of the greatest movies ever made. In the movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Warden Norton’s corruption scheme has been revealed, the authorities are closing in on him, and he is about to be arrested. The camera pans to a picture of a quote hanging on the warden’s office wall, “HIS JUDGEMENT COMETH and that RIGHT SOON”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the evidence shows that the scales of justice have tipped, the tables have turned, and Judgement Day is Coming.
First, the ever-resilient American People have endured and survived the Obama, and Biden/Harris administrations and their inane policies.
We outlived the draconian Covid Lockdowns, and the Fauci lies.
We have persevered despite repeated attempts to censor our speech.
We watched two politically contrived and bogus impeachments.
We witnessed the freakish escapades of Hunter Biden, courtesy of his “laptop from hell.”
Inconceivably, a bag of cocaine was found at the Whitehouse.
Social Media platforms manipulated our online searches.
Mail-in ballots and drop boxes, some say, were used to steal a Presidential Election.
The January 6th Committee findings were so partisan based and erroneous that President Biden was compelled to issue a preemptive pardon to all committee members.
We tragically lost 13 U.S. service members in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Statues were erected in honor of 8 time convicted felon George Floyd.
In the summer of 2020, the BLM riots caused more than $1 billion dollars of damage.
Several major cities defunded their police departments.
Many prominent voices were canceled for voicing their opinions and many of our institutions were falsely accused of systemic racism.
Biological men were allowed to participate in women’s sports and allowed to use their bathrooms and locker rooms. Tampons were put in boys’ bathrooms at some schools.
A United States Supreme Court nominee could not articulate the definition of ‘Woman” at her confirmation hearing.”
The Biden Administration allowed millions of undocumented illegal immigrants into our country.
Deadly fentanyl, coming through our southern border, caused tens of thousands of deaths.
American citizens have been senselessly murdered by illegal aliens.
Conservative Supreme Court Justices have been doxed.
A Democrat aide filmed himself having sex in a Senate hearing room.
A transgender activist went topless at a Whitehouse event.
American citizens suffered through crippling inflation.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Biden’s watch.
The Supreme Court’s “Dobbs” decision (abortion) was illegally leaked, and no person has ever been held accountable. On several occasions President Biden fell down, shook hands with invisible people and wandered off aimlessly at events and was unable to answer questions without a teleprompter.
Democrats refused to hold a primary after Biden withdrew from the 2024 Presidential race. President Biden was investigated for illegally possessing classified documents. A Special Prosecutor declined to charge him, concluding in part, that he was an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Americans watched President Trump get shot on live television at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
But the most serious and dangerous threat ever directed at the American system of Justice is the use of lawfare by the Left. Lawfare is defined as a strategic use of the legal system as a tool to achieve a political objective. Lawfare has been waged by Soros-funded prosecutors and has had a chilling effect on our justice system. Using the law to destroy your political opponent or using the law to thwart the will of the People is un-American, unjust, unbecoming, untoward and illegal.
Progressive prosecutors have blatantly violated their oath to uphold the law. The use of lawfare has caused the American People to lose faith and trust in the justice system. According to a 2024 Gallup poll, confidence in the judicial system has declined to a record low of just 35%.
The most notable examples of Left’s use of lawfare include Colorado Secretary of State and attorney Jena Griswold sued to keep President Trump off the Colorado ballot in the 2024 Presidential Election. Griswold’s futile efforts resulted in a unanimous 9 to 0 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court (Trump v Anderson) prohibiting Colorado and the remaining 49 states from removing President Trump from the ballot.
Soros-funded and Trump-hating New York Attorney General Letitia James sued President Trump for civil fraud. The flimsy case was a blatant attempt by AG James to bankrupt President Trump and keep him off the campaign trail. With the assistance of Leftist Judge Arthur Engeron, President Trump was found liable, and Engeron imposed an unprecedented $465 million civil fine. Recently, the New York Court of Appeals vacated the fine because it violated the 8th Amendment which prohibits the imposition of excessive fines. Ironically, Letitia James is currently under investigation by the Justice Department for mortgage fraud.
Next, Soros-funded New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted President Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. With the assistance of conflicted Judge Juan Merchan, the case resulted in a conviction on all counts. However, the overwhelming consensus in the legal community is that this case will eventually be overturned on appeal.
According to Bloomberg News more than 320 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump Administration this year alone. Through the use of lawfare the Left is hellbent on stopping President Trump from implementing his agenda.
Locally, the law-abiding citizens of Cook County have had to endure eight years of Soros-funded Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
Foxx deliberately ignored her oath of office. Foxx refused to prosecute felony retail theft cases unless the value of the merchandise exceeded $1,000.00. Illinois law requires that the value of the stolen merchandise exceeds $300.00 to make it a felony.
Most remarkably, Foxx allowed Jussie Smollett to get away with a hate crime hoax that stunned the nation. The case ultimately ended in the Illinois Supreme Court overturning Smollett’s conviction not because the evidence of Smollett’s guilt was insufficient but due to a legal technicality.
However, some good did come out of the Smollett hoax fiasco. The much-maligned Chicago Police Department Detective Division conducted a thorough and fair investigation. Their textbook investigation exposed Smollett’s lies for the nation to see.
Retired Illinois Appellate Court Justice Sheila O’Brien, in a capacity as a private citizen, helped to expose and correct the injustice inflicted by Kim Foxx.
Judge Michael Toomin (now deceased), a widely respected Jurist, made a courageous ruling and reinstated the case that Foxx dismissed. That decision, did not sit well with the Democrat party and Judge Toomin was targeted for defeat in his retention election by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Despite those nefarious efforts, Judge Toomin was successfully retained.
Special Prosecutor Dan Webb, one of the finest trial lawyers in America, and his team did an outstanding job presenting the evidence. Webb prosecuted the case “pro bono.” Smollett Trial Court Judge James Linn, one of very best judges to ever wear a robe, conducted a fair and impartial trial.
Regrettably, Smollett was not held to account legally, but fortunately the Court of Public Opinion rendered a very negative verdict against him.
Some of the most prominent Soros-funded prosecutors have also met a bad fate.
Soros-funded Baltimore prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, was convicted of perjury and is no longer a prosecutor.
Soros-funded San Francisco prosecutor Chesa Boudin was recalled and removed from office by voters halfway through his term.
Los Angeles County and Soros-funded prosecutor George Gascon lost his reelection bid in 2024.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who engaged in lawfare, was disqualified from the Trump election interference case. She was ordered to pay $54,000 in attorney fees and was found to have violated the Georgia Open Records Act. Willis was also humiliated in front of a nationwide audience after it was revealed that she hired her lover to prosecute a complex criminal case against President Trump and others though he had no prior criminal law experience. That case has since been dismissed.
Former prosecutor and current U.S. Senator from California Adam Schiff is being investigated for mortgage fraud.
Former Soros-funded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner resigned from office in 2023 and was required to complete a diversion program for misusing public funds.
Former Soros-funded U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins from the District of Massachusetts resigned from office after she committed ethical violations and her license to practice law was suspended.
Hillsborough County and Soros-funded State Attorney Andrew Warren was removed from office by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after he refused to enforce valid existing law relating to restrictions on abortion and gender affirming care.
Finally, Kim Foxx chose not to run for reelection. Additionally, on December 1, 2024, Foxx’s last day in office, the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission suspended her law license for failing to complete mandatory continuing legal education requirements.
Wherefore, the Court of Common Sense can reasonably conclude that the American system of Justice is overwhelmingly rejecting the use of “Lawfare” as a political weapon much to the chagrin of George Soros and his sycophants.
Paraphrasing another line from that great movie The Shawshank Redemption and so aptly stated by Morgan Freeman’s character “Red,”
“It feels like we have crawled through 500 yards of shit smelling foulness we can’t even imagine, but we came out clean on the other side.”
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The Honorable Judge James R. Brown, now retired, worked for 30 years in the Cook County Criminal Justice System. He began his career as an Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney. He then worked for 8 years as a Criminal Defense Attorney. Brown was then elected to the Cook County Circuit Court in 2002 serving as a Circuit Court Judge for 18 years before retiring.
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Judgement is coming for us all. Forgiveness and Judgement are the Lord’s. We all will be judged.
George Sotos should have been in jail long ago with so many of his friends.
Lest we forget, left wing “Families over Billionaires” is funded by dark money, how ironic, from left wing billionaires.
Ita iustitia fiat et mox!
Well said, Judge!
Thanks Pat, I knew that Latin I was taught By Father Wiatrak S.J would come in handy…By the way, to turn a phrase, St. “Ita” is my ancestral parish in Edgewater.
Love it, but “Iudicium [his judgement] venit et mox [or cito, used more in law] might be better. Made my day though!
PS Good article!
When do we start impeaching so called judges that can’t even follow the laws they have sworn to uphold and defy the Supreme Court? Not soon enough.
Terrific job of laying out the evidence. It creates a compelling case.
Sir,I am grateful for these words.
Thanks Judge Brown for your service in our legal system, and on the bench!
I’m glad to have read your article, as its a reminder to all of us, on how laws can be manipulated by those who seek to legitimize their agenda, through perversion ot it!
Great column Sir – you’ve summarized the lawfare well. Bravo!
First rate column!
Judge Brown, you are honorable indeed!
Well done. Chicago lost a great judge when you retired.
Leftist judges repeatedly trespassing on the legislative or even executive branch — hasn’t that become exhausting? How rewarding, then, to see retired Judge Brown expertly review this politicians-in-robes problem in a proper commentary context.
Timely and well expressed. We have a job ahead of us to restore the brakes on a judicial system too often unmoored from respecting any checks on itself. Where do we turn to recover damages to our civil rights or Constitution after a judicial trampling?
Bravo, your Honor!
Excellent column Judge Brown. I feel for the crime victims not only victimized once by evil human beings, but again at the hands of Kim Fox, Judge Evans, and Toni Preckwinkle. No justice for those poor souls..
Your Honor, and after 36 years as a Cop and countless hours spent in court that is not a term that I use lightly. You laid out a great case on “lawfare”, and I agree with the points that you made. Until the (sic) “media” in this country goes back to reporting the news as opposed to having an agenda that is based on trying to make people think in a certain way, I feel that none of this will legitimately be addressed.
I haven’t watched (sic) “the news” in many years. Watching a talking head, reading a teleprompter, who might never have had an original thought, trying to tell me how to think doesn’t appeal to me at all. Reading the words of honest people, like John Kass, and you, Your Honor, does appeal to me. Thanks for a great column, and thanks for your many years of service.
Amen, Dan.
How do you think Governor Shoulder Pads would have held up under this pressure. This article helps me take a couple steps back and compare the character of two guys with similar net worth. It’s not a fair fight. Thanks Judge Brown for the detail!
Hoping Trump follows through on the Guard. Just the threat has beaten Pritzker. Then all the neighborhoods I have had the privilege to work and walk around in will be safe – West Garfield, North Lawndale, Pilsen, Little Italy, Chatham, Pullman, Altgeld and Hegewisch. All safe
Speaking of Hegewisch – walk arond Hegewisch and listen – zero ambient noise, you could be in the Northwoods. Then stop in at Steve’s Lounge (Fridays only). Out of this world Fish Fry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du_Kvj66IBc
Judge, you have an Excellent and Factual account of the abusive nature of the Progressive Liberal Globalists. I don’t want to think of what could of happened if Trump didn’t win.
Trump has stalled them, but hasn’t stopped them. The deep state won’t go down easily and Sorros may never be brought to Justice in his attempt to end the America we love. Too many blindly follow the idea of the progressive movement, which is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Their goal is to make us another failed Communist Country, enriching themselves, with their unsustainable promises, that work only for the party’s leaders.
Too many fail to understand how millions have been killed who didn’t go along with Stalin, Castro, and Mao Zedong to name a few. Estimates of those mass killings, according to Wikipedia, range between 10 to 148 Million with executions, famine, forced labor, starvation and imprisonment. Why don’t Progressives and their supporters fail to realize this?
Thank you for a “great” column. Difficult to read because of all the corruption that has occurred but does give me faith.
Reading this I thought wow we’ve been through a lot of shit.
Thanks judge for your articulate article. I’m not sure if we’re half way through the woods or at the entrance.
Hopefully sanity returns.
Judge Brown- You have compiled quite an impressive list of wrongdoings (some of which are actually accurate). The problem is that you ignore equally nefarious activities from those you politically support. Off the top of my head I could easily match your list with counter examples of equally or worse activities committed by those you apparently vote for.
Regarding the alleged lawfare against Mr. Trump, I could possibly agree concerning the classified documents and hush money cases, although I do think the hush money case was legitimate because it involved Mr. Trump’s misleading of the American public prior to a presidential election. In other words, the American public deserved to know that Mr. Trump had paid off a porn star to cover up his sexual affair with her. (Also that he had paid to bury a story about his affair with Playboy bunny Karen McDougal). Do you remember when during the 1988 presidential campaign frontrunner Gary Hart was forced to suspend his campaign due to an alleged affair with Donna Rice? Or what happened to John Edwards during the 2008 campaign?
But the Federal Election Obstruction and Georgia State Election Racketeering/Subversion were absolutely legitimate. Mr. Trump’s behavior following his 2020 election loss was indeed criminal and bordered on treason. His lies and deception, which continue to this day, have caused immense damage to our country. It is terrifying that someone who was once an actual judge could be so blatantly biased.
I bet you voted for Barry & Joey?
Sorry Bob. “Hush” money you say? In legal terms it is a “nondisclosure agreement” which might be ethically offensive to some, but are totally legal. “Misleading the American public” is up for the American electorate to decide if they have been mislead; not the courts. Hart was forced to suspend his campaign because of “public disapproval”; not in any way related to legalities. Once again you are confusing who should determine who runs for office … the courts or the people. In both cases, Trump and Hart, it was the people. The courts had no business in either. And that goes for John Edwards as well.
My concern is the Trump payback for the outrageous Democratic law fare – as documented by Judge Brown – used against him. It’s called payback (even though he pledged not to do so). He is now paying them back in spades with his own law fare. We are beginning to look like a banana republic.
B
You say it was up to the American people to decide, but how can they fairly decide when they have been deliberately and illegally deceived?
On the far graver matter of election interference, those charges too deserved their day in court. If no laws were broken, a fair trial would have made that clear. But short-circuiting the process because of who won the 2024 election is a betrayal of the rule of law itself. There is nothing more dangerous than a leader who, with zero evidence and only to serve his own ego, tries to undermine the peaceful transfer of power — the bedrock of
As for talk of a “banana republic” — nothing in my lifetime looked more like
Fair enough. I wonder if you will maintain that opinion if and when that jury outcome is likely reversed on appeal? I’m no lawyer as you know. But it seems to me there were egregious errors committed by the judge in that case.
I really don’t think anyone was deliberately and illegally deceived by DT. Anyone NOT comatose knew or knows who DT is. The actual legal issue in the Stormy Daniels case was not “hush” money per se, but falsification of business records. That was the legal issue. And honestly it was BS, and will likely be reversed.
And yes, I agree undermining the bedrock principle – the peaceful transfer of power – is an affront to our Republic. Hey, even Nixon, who till the day he died believed the 1960 election was stolen (by one Richard J Daley) conceded, and then eight years later won the Presidency. I’ll give you that.
As far as fair trials go, well you need fair prosecutions. In Georgia that particular prosecution was handled by an incompetent and corrupt DA, who self imploded.
As far as the federal charges are concerned the DOJ consensus since Nixon is that charging a sitting president would do more harm to the Republic than having those charges play out in court. Of course those charges were dismissed without prejudice so DT can theoretically be charged once he leaves office IF the statute of limitations have not run out and IF a Democrat wins the presidency.
Yes. Jan 6th was bad. Agreed.
But as I’ve told you in the past, DT is in part in the WH because of people who think as you do: accepting the normalization of an unaccountable administrative state. You bitch and moan about our precious democracy under attack by DT, and yet you ignore the past 50 – 100 years of (literal) administrative tyranny. That’s right. Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats effectively making laws, adjudicating those laws and then enforcing the adjudication (with fines or threats of imprisonment). That Bob was Madison’s very definition of tyranny. And the irony is you don’t even know it. And you – and most Democrats – are deluded to think that is the Republic our Founder’s envisioned.
Bruce- I can’t agree with some of it but thanks for your thoughtful and well articulated replies. It would be fun to discuss this in person sometime haha.
Bob Lee brags: “Off the top of my head I could easily match your list with counter examples of equally or worse activities committed by those you apparently vote for. ”
But you didn’t, did you?
You’re conveniently forgetting John Edwards was running against Obama the chosen one, in 2008.
An excellent summation, Judge. You hit on every issue that is affecting our great Country. Thank you, and enjoy your retirement.
Tom
Thank you Judge Brown.
Quite a beautiful summary.
Over time, I have forgotten some of the outrageous acts you bring back to light.
It has taken and is currently taking an enormous effort to rid this disease from our country.
Sadly very few of those accountable have yet paid any real price.
Much hangs in the balance.
Judge Brown,
Thankyou for this detailed account of all the lawfare attempts to silence Trump, along with the rest of us. This article should be published in every newspaper and media outlet accross the country – that would dare to publish or air it. In front of our eyes you itemized all that’s wrong with the ongoing leftists’ attempts to demand blind obedience from the populace. Well done, and many thanks to John Kass for this post.
Judge,
Your litany of offences that Soros and his minions are responsible are frightening of which most of us are familiar prove how resilient our wonderful USA is. A counntry that our forefathers and we have fought, suffered and died. Hopefully justice will be served and the Soros crew will go down in the history books as the vermin that they are.
Well organized, great Article. But I have yet to hear from someone as to how to fix the Great Villain, the American Media. 55 years ago when I came here as a foreign graduate engineering student, I along with other foreign students used to search libraries for newspapers like London Times, and The Mail for our news. Such was the reputation of our Local News Media, even those days!
Isn’t it the current chief justice of the cook county circuit court is Tiny Tim?
I mean Chief Judge and not Justice.
Judge Brown…
But other than the things you listed…whataya got?
I’d never heard of the Hon, James Brown – which is OK, because I’m pretty sure he’s never heard of me – so the first thing I thought was “he must be the hardest-working man in the law business”, but apparently he’s retired so I can’t use that gag.
In any case, thanks for the well-written article.
Great column
Can you imagine where we would be with Biden or Harris at this point?
Regardless of what mistakes Trump has made he is head and shoulders above those pathetic liberal clowns we see in California,Massachusetts,Oregon,Washington and poor Illinois.
Pritxker and Johnson are beyond pathetic…….
E
I can only hope and pray something comes of this in forms of trials, guilty verdicts, sentences and jail time! I’d also like all the judges that keep ruling against President Trump’s decisions, looked into. Almost without fail they are appointed by previous Democratic
Presidents
Actually no. There are plenty of Republican appointed judges that have ruled against certain Trump actions.
This was such a concise, well written article. All should read and I would love to see more from Judge Brown
Really nice article summing up many of the legal events of the last few years
My only disagreement is with the final statement from the Shawshank redemption. We are not clean coming out of the other end things still smell and they smell badly.