The political assassination of Judge James R. Brown: Lawfare offs a lawfare critic – Wirepoints
By: Mark Glennon*
The cancel mob lives on. The latest example is in Illinois courts. There, the mob could hardly have been more brazen, defrocking a judge for daring to write about one of their favorite weapons – “lawfare” – abuse of the legal system for political or social goals.
James R. Brown was a 20-year Cook County judge who retired in 2020. He was reinstated as a judge on December 11, 2025 to handle traffic cases for a term of about a year. Reinstatements like that of retired judges are common to fill temporary vacancies on the bench.
It turned out that Brown had authored an article in September 2025, when he was not a judge, listing examples of lawfare. The list is pretty typical of instances alleged by conservatives of lawfare waged by the left in recent years. Brown’s article also cheers what he sees as a current trend against lawfare and progress bringing its wrongdoers to justice.
Enter two left-leaning lawyer groups: the Chicago Council of Lawyers and the Cook County Bar Association. Each wrote to the Illinois Supreme Court demanding that it terminate Brown’s reinstatement.
“Judge Brown spouted conspiracy theories and propaganda that pervades right wing media in this country and expressed hostility and threats to people who hold political and legal views contrary to those he expressed,” wrote the Council. “The stated views reflected bias and prejudice on race, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. The statements in question are wildly inappropriate for a member of the judiciary to be making,” they said.
“Unquestionably,” the Cook County Bar Association wrote, Brown’s column not only ran afoul of the judicial code of conduct “but also damage the public trust that our esteemed judiciary so preciously uphold.” The association cited Brown’s examples of lawfare as proof of his inability judge fairly and impartially. What Brown wrote about “George Floyd, systemic racism, foreign nationals, issues related to gender identity, LGBTQIA+individuals, and political affiliations are blatantly disrespectful, insensitive, harmful, and foul,” said the association.
The Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court obliged by throwing Brown off the bench Jan. 26 in a one-sentence order that provides no explanation, reasoning or indication of fair process whatsoever.
But hold on.
What “conspiracies theories” did Brown repeat? What’s “disrespectful, insensitive, harmful, and foul” in what Brown wrote? What conflicts with the Code of Judicial Conduct (even assuming it applies to somebody not on the bench at the time of publication)?
Read Brown’s column yourself for the answer, copied in its entirety below, which was published by John Kass, a conservative columnist.
Read it honestly and you’ll see that it’s 100% accurate on facts. Brown’s only claim that’s arguable about a conspiracy theory is on whether ballot boxes and mail-in ballots stole the 2020 election. But there, Brown merely said “some say” that happened. That’s true.
By no means can the Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct be read to prohibit articles like Brown’s. About all it says that’s on point, in a preamble, is that judges must “carefully monitor their social media accounts to ensure that no communication can be reasonably be interpreted as suggesting a bias or prejudice…or an absence of judicial independence, impartiality, integrity or competence.” Other preamble language generally expect judges to “maintain and enhance confidence in the legal system.” It covers judges and judicial candidates, but says nothing about judges who are in retirement, as Brown was when he wrote his column.
There’s no evidence or allegation anywhere that Brown’s political views biased any of his rulings. As reported by CWB, in 2014, the last time Brown ran for retention, every bar association in the county recommended him for retention. The Chicago Council of Lawyers, which is now calling for his removal, said he was “considered to be a diligent judge with a good demeanor. He is reported to be prompt in starting his call, and is praised for being fair to all parties. The Council finds him Qualified for retention to his current position.”
The code also says that judges should be encouraged to educate the public about the legal system. “Judges are uniquely qualified to engage in extrajudicial activities that concern the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice, such as by speaking, writing, teaching, or participating in scholarly research projects.”
Didn’t Brown’s column honor all of that?
The primary point of the article is to celebrate the recent trend away from lawfare. Far from shaming the legal system, Brown says it’s working. His column begins by saying, “The Court of Common Sense is finally back in Session after far too many years of adjournment.” It ends with this: “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. It made that case nicely, whether you agree with it or not, offering just the kind of education judges are encouraged to provide.
Special contempt should be directed to articles on this matter by Injustice Watch and the Chicago Sun-Times, both being leftist. About Brown and his column, Injustice Watch wrote this: “He described progressive prosecutors like former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx as ‘Soros-funded’ — a widely used antisemitic trope centered on Jewish billionaire George Soros — and invoked several conspiracy theories popular across the political right, like Fauci lies and Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Seriously? It’s many of Fauci’s claims about Covid and the left’s claims that the laptop was a Russian plant that have been completely debunked.
It’s vile and borders on defamation to claim that criticisms of George Soros are antisemetic. Countless Jews and Jewish organizations across America have slammed Soros and the radically left candidates and causes he supports. Not coincidentally, the cancel mob at the Chicago Tribune succeeded in getting John Kass fired based on the same charge about Soros and antisemitism — a depraved charge, as we described earlier.
And guess who wrote a Chicago Sun-Times “news” story about Brown’s termination? Injustice Watch’s own Melissa Dai. In the Sun-Times, she repeated the baseless smears as matters of certain fact. Brown’s column, she also wrote, “echoed far-right rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Among other topics, he entertained the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, denounced the murders of U.S. citizens by ‘illegal aliens’ and criticized ‘Soros-funded’ progressive prosecutors.”
What a monumental testimony to the left’s treachery and hypocrisy this is. Judge Brown damaged the public trust “that our esteemed judiciary so preciously upholds,” wrote the Chicago Council of Lawyers smugly. No, it’s those who cancelled him who did precisely that.
UPDATE 2/2/26: Expect a lawsuit soon.
*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.
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Judge Brown’s column from September 5, 2025:
His Judgement Cometh and That Right Soon
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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Pray for America. As the pendulum slowly swings back toward common sense the vitriol, the attacks, the manufactured protests & violence, and yes lawfare will not only continue they will ramp up. God help us if the D’s take over the US House and/or the US Senate. The cold civil war has been in place for some time. It will get worse before it gets better. As Rush Limbaugh used to say: “This is what pushing back looks like”.
Ironic that a certain SC justice with the same last name can show up at a Hollywood Gala for folks who croon sing rap etc for a living and who on the whole are a very TDS bunch, and join in the cheering to abolish ICE. Her lack of judicial acumen is clear to even those of us without a JD./Esq. after their name.
Do not forget the teacher in West Chicago for posting “Go Ice” on his private account who has been suspended because allegedly the poor wee baby LatinX students in his area felt unsafe (give me a effin break) because of his comments. Let’s see, he supports legitimate federal law enforcement lawfully enforcing federal immigration laws that the majority of the country voted for and still supports, but the teacher is punished for exercising his God given rights and Constitutional rights of free speech. It is not the 3rd world countries that are the “sh……” as much as the “great” State of Illinois
“Soros funded prosecutors”. If we ever reform the system, we lose this. What else are you gonna write about? Victor Davis Hansen would be out of business without the “radical left”. This is funded ghouls, these oligarchs who stir the pot. It looks like the goal was to destabilize the cities, take over much of the budgeting through NGO’s, private prisons, college loans, climate change hoax, oligarchs make their living off of this shit. At least 60% of the population, and I bet it is even more disagrees with most of this, but as long as we hate each other, we can’t band together to throw these motherfuckers out.
The Dems of Cook County play the same game. Trump is the best thing to ever happen to them. They point to him, say they’re fighting him, then they don’t have to defend their shitty record. Trump’s first term was so bad, Sleepy Joe Biden beat him. Brian Kemp is not a leftist. He said the election in Georgia was legit. He refused to go to that cesspool in DC. Even though he was popular state wide and would beat Ossoff, and likely Warnock too. I can’t say as I blasted him. You have to whore yourself out and kiss ass, and stand behind that clown Trump, and the closet homosexuals that do his bidding and nod and bark like a seal. They are not men.
San Francisco had a recall election and tossed Cheasa Boudine out of office. It is a Democratic city and they didn’t want that any of what he was selling. They also threw out a couple Board of Education people because when the schools were close due to the “china virus” they were focused on taking Jefferson and Washington’s names off of school buildings instead of getting the kids back in schools.
We are ruled by extremes, used to distract us. The hard left would not have power over the “paper” had the oligarchs not funded them. Ditto Kim Foxx, Ditto Pritzker, who is an oligarch himself. Rauner used his money to win election. Yet, he didn’t have the balls to fight Madigan. He didn’t have the balls to take his turnaround strategy to the people and present the case. We didn’t have a budget in Illinois for how many years? Meanwhile, Wisconsin enacted a turnaround agenda and is solvent, we are not. Thank you Bruce!
Rauner is an oligarch. While I’m sure he’s made money in private industry, he has numerous government contracts. That is why he dropped his fight. These people own the student loan companies, prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, they get far more from the government than ALL the welfare queens and Illegal aliens combined.
Our pockets are being picked while this culture war is being stoked by the oligarchs. Soros backed the prosecutors because it provides cover for his financial scams. They even make money on trans. They exploit them. They make money off of abortion. They’re even bigger than “How you doin” ashfault guys. The military is their biggest scam. No bid contracts and budgets that cannot pass an audit and VDH and his acolytes say nothing.
LGBTQ was a main talking point during the 2024 campaign. When Trump won, in one of his first interviews, he was asked about the issue. He said, it involves so few people. I think we should just leave them alone. The sports aside, he was correct. This firms my point that it was red meat for low IQ people and the media pimps who stoke division.
If we have voter ID, independent redistricting, public financing of campaigns, a robust, easier referendum process, term limits, many of these culture wars fade into the background where they belong. You won’t have a handful of extremists and con men governing us. Yet, I’ve not seen an argument for any of this here.
It’s why we don’t have true immigration reform, it’s why we allow all these nonprofits and foundations which not only enable oligarchs to avoid taxes, they undermine our society by funding and promoting the culture issues that stoke division and distract us.
Epstein. Democrat hoax? They’re all over it. Republicans are all over it. Women exploited and no one cares. You’re told not to care. There’s always someone else to hate. The oligarchs want us to fight, so they can keep robbing us. So they don’t have to actually pay for anything. You see, the net effect is they pay nothing. We pay, and all the money goes to them.
Well stated points Sir.
Robert
RUN 4 F…ING OFFICE, PLEASE.
YOU NAILED IT AGAIN!
Are you sure Trump was the best thing to happen to Cook County democrats? I would have said getting control of government worker unions was (or vice versa), by a long shot. Their preoccupation with Trump has an obvious cause; they are afraid of him, as they should be.
Excellent sir.
Some truths to your post, in particularly the way ‘oligarchs’ and others who want government to do something for them manipulate the political system . You are wrong however, on the reforms you suggest such as public financing and term limits. Public financing won’t do anything because super Pacs are still legal and will overwhelm any candidate who tries to buck a special interest group or oligarch. Term limits don’t work either – the special interests and funders don’t mind having to buy a new set of politicians every 12 or so years. California has had term limits for 30+ years and it is more screwed up than ever.
The answer is to re-engage with individual voters and disempower the funders. How? You make legislative districts so tiny the money doesn’t matter and media doesn’t control. As to Congress, you subdivide congressional districts, elect representatives from those tiny districts and have them choose one person to represent the district.
For more details, go to http://www.hearthepeople.org.
I agree. Term limits will not work. As you point out, California has had them for 30 years and is more f’d up than ever. Plus from my experience in the federal government, term limits would only further empower those unaccountable “non partisan lifer experts” in the administrative state since they effectively would be the only ones left in DC who would actually have continuity and know how things “worked” and get things done. Bad, bad idea. And as to public financing? Illinois has more governmental units than any state in the union. Public financing for every entity would “break the bank” of a state that is already effectively bankrupt. And then there is the little matte of the First. If somehow I’m not “chosen” as a publicly financed candidate, who’s to say I can’t run if I choose to finance my own campaign? No one that’s who. You have to find a way to take the big “money” out of politics (if possible) without impinging on the First since effectively speech and money are intricately linked. So your idea regarding disempowering the funders is very intriguing, and is the only idea I have heard that has a chance of “taking the big bucks out of politics” without impinging on the First.
John, everything in America is broken. There is no more honest Judges, Press is no more, the Politicians are only out for themselves. Sad what we have allowed to happen to this once great Country. Full of honesty, freedom and mostly Christianity. I feel so sad for the young. They have no future and they do not know it.
John has a great group of friends, people who write exceptionally well on a wide range of interesting topics, but my concern is for John. We’ve not heard from him in quite a while. I inquired a couple of weeks ago and no response was given that I saw. I pray for his good health and hope he’ll be back writing again soon.
Amen to that.
Nice piece here Mr. G.
It’s ironic (to me anyway) that the Chicago Council of Lawyers and Cook County Bar Association wanted Judge Brown removed because his honest writing (as a private citizen) would damage the public trust in the judiciary. Sorry boys and girls, that ship sailed long ago on the Operation Greylord.
But the two groups are useful to a reformed chumbolone like me. Any judicial candidate recommended by either group means a “no” vote on my ballot.
There are still judges that are honest and true here in the area. I’ve met more than a few. In the meantime, let the CCL and CCBA guide your vote as the ultimate kiss of death on the candidates worthiness.
Judge Brown, enjoy your retirement. You’ve earned it.
Nice comments. Well said.
It is almost laughable that CCL and CCBA consider that Judge Brown brought disrepute down upon the judiciary. As both groups care nothing about anything but lining their pockets by manipulation of the law (re: Bill Clinton and the definition of “is”, is a charter member of their Hall of Fame), does anything they do enhance the reputation of the judiciary and the legal profession? A famous quote states that “The law is an ass.”. I believe that that quote applies more to the lawyers than the law. A plague upon the CCL and the CCBA – who just demonstrated their respect of the law. There are no doubt good lawyers out there, but most are slimebags – and just proved it.
Kass wrote about Judge Brown 2 or 3 weeks past, but I did not understand he was being punished for writing a JK column. Posting it again jogged my memory. Thank you.
This is unreal. All the “woke” care about is power. If you disagree with us, we will crush you. We are told that Illinois is very blue. But never mind that 44% of Illinoisans voted for Trump in 2024, and he picked up 25% more voters in Cook County. It doesn’t matter to them.
Which is why, when fighting the woke mob, you never, ever back up one inch. They are always collecting scalps. This is why Kristi Noem should not be fired for one hasty tweet. Trump, to his credit, understands this better than anyone.
I pray for our country come November.
All Pritzker talks about is Trump. It’s all the clowns who are running for Congress talk about. Delia Ramirez? Clown, Trumps Trump Trump. Theyre pushing a tax on electric cars, Pritzker has taxed us to death, Brandon Johnson is spending the city into oblivion, ICE, Trump, Racism! That’s all they got, and it will likely work too. Half the people who talk the most shit about Trump vote for these Cook County clowns. Kamala Harris almost beat him.
It’s a race to the bottom. There’s still time and due to our incompetent media and our short attention spans, look how they’re glossing over this Epstein business. As I said about Rauner, contracts are what’s government is all about. They’ve all sold their souls for money.
Do you really think any of them care about you? Any of them, DEM REP, all whores. MTG left. Look how AIPAC is going after Massie. Kemp could have been a US Senator, no thank you. Sununu in NH, very popular governor, he could be a US Senator, no thanks. Look how Noem has had to debase herself, Kash Patel, Bongino?
Cook County will go bankrupt before there’s any reform. The oligarch, who hold the bonds, will be paid first. I’m sure state legislators will sneak in provisions to protect their pensions. Widows of cops, trying to get by on 40 grand a year, will lose out.
A conservative judge does not have to suspend his First Amendment right of free speech before writing a well-reasoned opinion article. And conspiracy theories often turn out to be true.
Thx for capturing the latest episode in the sad state of affairs in Crook County. Not so Funny thing, had the Jacobin not pointed out anything negative about Soros as being anti-Semitic, I would not have known from reading JK’s original column or Judge Brown’s recent piece, that Soros was Jewish. Absurd that someone reads either writer’s thoughts on Soros and comes away thinking the writers are anti-Semitic.
Yet these same clowns cheer on Hamas and condemn Israel and America at every turn. God bless people of common sense and uncommon decency.
While reading this excellent commentary, this thought came to me. How would all of these embarrassing and ethically inept liberal commentators have reacted to Pres John Kennedy’s asassination? As you know there have been uncountable investigations and opinions on what really happened. Many of thesecontroversies continue today. In today’s world of discourse, I think the msm George soros types would all agree there could be be only one narrative (their’s of course) that is acceptable and all all others would be cancelled as in the case of Judge Brown. How far have we regressed as a thinking society in recent years?? Thank God for John Kass and his teammates. Keep up the great work. Just renewed my membership
Citizens United has done more to undermine Democracy than any leftist. Also the PACs and the lobbyists. My idea with public financing of campaigns is that put the PACs out of business and kneecap the lobbyists, especially pharma and AIPAC.
I’m no fan of Cori Bush, or Jamal Bowman, but I will be sad if Massie is taken by them. Trump is such a loser, he’s against the most principled Real Conservative in the Congress.
I beg to differ. Specifically Citizens United challenged the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2002) which focused on the “ corrupting influence” of “corporate” money. But this also included unions as well. And since corporations are merely organizations of people, enabling major tax advantages, they are almost universal in the US, from the biggest wall street entities to the smallest mom and pop corner businesses as well as myriad media and nonprofit entities (NRA, Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, AARP, perhaps even this web site). “The First Amendment doesn’t tolerate burdens on core political speech based on mere speculation of potential corruption.” The life blood of a Democracy is speech – free speech – and in particular political speech. Citizens’ United is one of the most important free speech cases in the last 50 years. And aside from further “transparency” in financial donation I suspect Rep Massie (being a libertarian conservative who believes government should keep its nose out of people’s business) very likely supports it. Rather than your usual sanctimonious, “I know everything” gasbaggery, why don’t you read Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion? You actual might learn something.
Wow Bruce, are you the lawyer for the status quo? You don’t think your ideas are good, so you want to tip the scales in your favor by being able to spend as much as Peter Theil or Musk, or the Edelson’s want?
I’ll keep to the Democrat manipulation through campaign spending and lobbyists, as that is the only thing you will listen to, as you don’t mind unlimited spending, if it’s on something you agree with.
Bill Clinton took pharma money, and allowed drug companies to advertise on TV? How has that worked out for us? RFK has stated that he has known about the fraud these companies have been running for years and had the goods on them 30 years ago. Yet, the “patriot” Roger Ailes told him he couldn’t run the story because pharma accounted for 40% of his ad revenue.
Bill Clinton also took corporate money and allowed changes that’s has enabled the media and the banks to consolidate, corner the market so to speak, in order to manipulate the public, and gouge working people through fees, late charges, and fines,
Clinton and Biden took corporate money and pushed the privatization of prisons, which has incentivized the locking up of poor people for the smallest infractions, things that anyone with a smooth talking lawyer like Eddie Burke, who could pull in front of 26th and Cal in his Caddy, move to the front of the line and talk to the judge to get a future well known columnist off on charges of drugs and DUI off.
Biden, the Senator from Delaware help with the crime bill, also he worked for changes in bankruptcy laws that enable loan companies to garnish Social Security in order to pay back student loans. Also, the credit card companies and pay day loan people love Biden.
Joe Manchin blocked infrastructure spending ding, health care reform, green technology, and he didn’t get paid? Kirsten Sinema voted against allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices that would lower costs for everyone, and coincidentally, she got a few hundred grand in her coffers from said drug companies? Coincidence, I’m sure.
Manchin’s daughter somehow got to run the company that makes EpiPens. As a physician, I’m sure you know about those. This is long patented tech and costs pennies to make. She jacked up the price 100’s of times over and screwed workings people.
I haven’t even mentioned CTU, SEIU, and theorem who own the DEM party in Illinois, not to mention fat boy Trust Fund baby Pritzker, whose brother is in the Epstein files. O
I could go on Bruce, but you’ve got your head up your ass. The thought that substantive reforms could not be enacted, and criminals in health care, banking, and the political industrial complex could not be prosecuted and the will of the people should rule the nation.
Unlimited spending is not free speech. I don’t care what the 5 to 4 political motivated Supreme Court Decision says. I disagree, as I have a right to.
No I’m not a lawyer. I’m a concerned citizen who actually reads original documents and thinks about things, who actually has gotten involved in community politics rather than sit on my big fat ass like you gasbaggging sanctimoni0us ignorant drivel.
One wonders if the “council” has the brainpower to understand the irony of their written statement “…..expressed hostility and threats to people who hold political and legal views contrary to those he expressed,”.
I daily recognize the wisdom of having left the hellhole of Illinois a couple of years ago.