She needs to be institutionalized.

This really makes you stop to think about all the injustice that is going on in court rooms everywhere. Think about all the Markos out there who never receive any press.

Read the update at the end of the original story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-protess/cook-county-judge-a-loose_b_3973197.html

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:

...seems like you're set for life.

Nice gig, 'eh?

1.) Lower the retention threshold to 50% +1;

2.) Make the retention question a 4-year one, rather than the current 10-year.

The fact is, too many regular citizens don't even bother to vote this part of the ballot. And who could blame them? You have 65 judges you've never heard of, and researching it is neither a pleasant task nor even very helpful. All these judges need to do is get a few hundred friends and family members to vote to retain them and they've probably beaten the odds!

there is no way i am going to hurt a good judge. but if i can add my vote to any campaign to get rid of a bad judge, i am in.

i am very careful with the elections, but the retentions? 60% is nuts.