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2026-03-24 Home Front: Politix
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Suppression of Dissent in a One-Party State: An Honored Judge Fights Back
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[JOHNKASSNEWS] The highly rated retired common-sense Cook County judge had something bothering him, something heavy on his mind, about the way the law was being used as a political cudgel, to beat the opposition senseless.
He thought this trend of attacking one’s political opponents under the color of law was hurting the republic and threatened to tear it apart.
And so, he shared what was on his mind publicly right here at your favorite website for common sense, JohnKassNews.com. His column led off with a photograph of my choosing, that of snarling billionaire, George Soros who used some of his vast fortune to elect leftist pro-criminal prosecutors in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York and other big cities. Law enforcement was demoralized and anarchy and lawlessness reigned.
He had retired honorably from the bench and answered the call of senior judges to return to the bench and help reduce a vast backlog of cases. And his essay written for me was compelling to those who didn’t like the modern American trend of lawfare, which is about using the courts to beat your political opponents into a puddle of goo under the color of law.
The judge’s essay at JohnKassNews were compelling enough to draw interest from the editors of Real Clear Politics. And they picked up his essay and ran it on their website, too. So millions more saw it and read it and discussed it on X and other social media.
The judge, by the name of James Brown, thought he was in the United States of America where citizens were free to speak their minds under the First Amendment to the Constitution. And so he wrote his column titled "His Judgement Cometh and That Right Soon."
But Judge Brown was wrong. He was not in just anyplace where people could speak their minds without fear of punishment. And he was not in old Russia.
Judge Brown was in Illinois, a one-party Democrat machine state that allows dissent only as long as it comes from the left, a place where conservative Republicans are rhetorically skewered and mocked by the political class and even by their dogs in the media. Even the once-proud and formerly Chicago Tribune has joined the state machine Democrats in attacking Republican conservatives, apparently driving what remains of them beyond the Illinois borders.
The political infrastructure of Democrat Illinois—from the government employee unions to the bar associations are loyal to the machine that controls almost everything.
The state was once run by Mayor Richard J. Daley.The leaders of the Illinois machine are now Gov. JB Pritzker, the hotel trust fund baby who resembles a middle aged Agustus Gloop on Ozempic, and Cook County Democrat Party chair Toni Preckwinkle, elected even though voters are under constant attack by repeat violent criminal offenders like that felon arrested 70 times who burned a young woman alive on the CTA. Police heard him scream "Burn bitch!"
Was it Pritzker or Preckwinkle or one of their agents whispering into the ears of the Illinois Supreme Court? I don’t know. I can’t say. I’ve been around this political game in Illinois and one thing is clear: Your opponents always come at you from the side.
The Cook County Bar Association and the liberal Chicago Council of Lawyers complained. The Illinois Supreme Court humiliated Judge Brown by recalling his appointment.
He spoke to other reporters, including one of the fairest and most impartial, Tim Hecke of CWB Chicago. Heck wrote:
"A retired Cook County judge who was recalled to the bench late last year to help manage the county’s crushing caseload backlog, only to be dumped by the state Supreme Court six weeks later over an opinion column he wrote as a private citizen, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the high court’s justices, alleging his removal was unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech.
"James R. Brown, who served on the Cook County Circuit Court for 18 years before retiring in 2020, answered the Supreme Court’s call for experienced judges to temporarily return to the bench and was one of seven retired judges to make the cut. The assignment was supposed to run almost a full year, through December 7, 2026, with Brown tackling the high-volume Traffic Court call.
"I wanted to help. I really wanted to help. I feel like I had a lot to add," Brown said Thursday. "I feel like I’m still in my prime."
"He stepped back on the bench on December 15, 2025, and no complaints about his conduct or impartiality were filed during his tenure, according to the lawsuit.
But in late December, the Chicago Council of Lawyers, which describes itself as "not a traditional bar association," and the Cook County Bar Association, the nation’s oldest bar association of Black lawyers and judges, caught wind of a column Brown wrote for former Tribune columnist John Kass’s website before he asked to be considered for reinstatement. Storm clouds quickly formed.
In petitioning the high court for Brown’s removal, the Cook County Bar Association objected to multiple passages from the column, titled "His Judgement Cometh and That Right Soon," including assertions that "justice awaits those who brazenly and viciously demonized the 77 million Trump supporters" and that "accountability, in one form or another, is coming to the George Soros-funded progressive prosecutors who waged lawfare against President Trump."
The bar associations objected to his politics, that he would dare take the side of President Trump against Soros prosecutors. It was all politics. It was all spite without honor.
The other day Judge Brown and his legal counsel from the Liberty Justice Center appeared on the Chicago Way podcast to discuss the case. I leave the link here if you’d like to listen.
On the Chicago Way podcast, Judge Brown spoke of the personal hurt and damage to his reputation.
"If they were calling into question my my impartiality, which has never been called into question. I’ve received all great fire ratings throughout my career. I was considered fair and partial, good legal ability, good demeanor. And they questioned that and I was devastated. I mean, the worst thing that you can take with judge is they’re corrupt or they’re unfair. And personally, I wouldn’t want to be a judge if I couldn’t be fair to people. That’s what it’s all about. You judge the law and you judge the facts of the case and you adhere to your oath. And you never ever bring politics into the equation,
Brendan Philbin is Senior Counsel at the Liberty Justice Center:
"We were really taken aback for reasons both to how it happened to Judge Brown, in the state of Illinois, there’s a process in the Illinois legislature or you’re removed through the Illinois Courts Commission. And in that courts Commission, like in an impeachment, you have a hearing and an opportunity to be heard, but in Judge Brown’s case, the Supreme Court just happened, you know, laterally and gave him no process, no notice and just issued an order that said his appointment to the bench was vacated. So and then the why? Of course, they didn’t like what he said. They didn’t like the content of what he said. And it didn’t appear to be an issue before the Cook County Bar Association, they said, because, John, you just mentioned that his column was picked up by RealClearPolitics, a national news organization."
They did more than that. The bar associations left their fingerprints all over the Constitution as they mutilated the sacred document.
"There’s also a problem that applies to Judge Brown specifically here, but also to all the other judges that are out there in Illinois. And that’s why we asked for a declaratory, judgment saying applying the Illinois Code of Judicial Ethics to retired judges. There’s a unconstitutional restraint on free speech. So we’ve had a lawsuit in federal court Northern District of Illinois against each individual Illinois Supreme Court Justices. We’ve asked them both. We’re seeking a preliminary injunction point back to mention county for the remainder of his one year term. We’ve also asked for damages for the financial hardship that this has caused drought and we’re also asking for that declaratory judgment too from the federal court. That says the Illinois Supreme Court acted unconstitutionally and we’re asking for that relief based on the the three foundations. I said earlier that how the most Supreme Court squarely circumvented the established due process".
Of course they did. Lawfare is mother’s milk to the Democrats of Illinois. Just days ago Gov. J.B. Pritzker threatened those who had worked in the Trump administration with civil if not outright criminal punishment.
How does this happen in America?
It happens when there is only one political party. And in Illinois it is ruled by the Democrats. Hush your mouth if you know what’s good for you. Shush. This is your last warning.
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