I find it infuriating every voting cycle, when I spend hours reading through the various judicial ratings and then preparing a cheat sheet to take to the polls for myself and mr. frazzled. (Thankfully, there are places like http://www.voteforjudges.org/2012_GENERAL_ELECTION_RATINGS_from_the_Alliance.pdf which includes ratings from the following: Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago
Area (AABA), Black Women’s Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago (BWLA), Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL),
Cook County Bar Association (CCBA), Decalogue Society of Lawyers (DSL), Hellenic Bar Association (HBA),
Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI), Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA),
Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC), Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois (PRBA), and
Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) ).
And the result? Let me quote:
“Since the 1960s, there have been 14 judges that have not been retained in Cook County. So in general, judges are always – or nearly always – retained. Because in Cook County while there have been 14 that have not been retained throughout the history of our retention process,
there have been no judges that have been not retained since 1990.”
http://www.wbez.org/blog/city-room-blog/election-file-voting-guide-should-i-‘retain’-these-judges-or-boot-them
How do we overcome this?
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