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Carlos Ballesteros is a reporter based in Chicago. He joined Injustice Watch in June 2020 after two years at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he covered immigrant and working-class communities of color throughout the South and West sides of the city. Before joining the newspaper, Carlos was a digital reporter for Newsweek in New York and interned at The Nation and In These Times. You can reach him at [email protected]
En la elección general de este año, tres de cada cuatro votantes del Condado de Cook votaron a favor o en contra de al menos un juez que buscaba la retención. ¿Es este nivel de compromiso una casualidad o una nueva normalidad?
Three in four Cook County voters in this year’s general election voted for or against at least one judge up for retention. Is this level of engagement a fluke or a new normal?
Cook County Circuit Judge Jackie Portman-Brown lost her retention bid by less than 12,000 votes, while Judge John Mahoney III held onto his seat by about 2,100 votes. Several other judges kept their seats by slim margins.
Los jueces del condado de Cook (Chicago) que buscan la reelección necesitan asegurar al menos el 60% de votos afirmativos para mantenerse en el puesto.
With nearly all the votes counted, Judge Jackie Portman-Brown did not get enough “yes” votes to stay on the bench as of Tuesday. Another judge is holding on to his seat by 282 votes.
As budget hearings begin, aldermen and advocates say the cuts are a drop in the bucket.
Officials said workers in the jail’s mailroom incorrectly identified the election guides as contraband.
A new book by the UIC historian lays out how the United States built a well-oiled bureaucracy that’s deported 57 million people, the companies that profited off of those deportations, and how the country became obsessed with inflicting pain on immigrants.
Judicial elections bring high stakes and consequences, especially for Black, Latinx and other marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by the justice system.
The departments were all named in Injustice Watch’s “In Plain View” investigation into troubling social media posts by law enforcement officers.