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Early morning report: Cook County judicial races, 2018
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Early morning returns offer hope: Voters appeared to favor judicial candidates without blemishes
Early morning returns offer hope: Voters appeared to favor judicial candidates without blemishes
Injustice Watch compiled a voting guide for the candidates running for judicial seats in Cook County because, despite the powerful role judges play in communities, little independent information is available to voters about the large pool of candidates.
Bar association evaluations are one of the few independent sources of information about Cook County judicial candidates, but at times they send voters mixed messages.
Longtime Cook County prosecutor Brian T. Sexton, now running for a seat on the bench, was chided by a U.S. District judge in 2016 for falsely testifying in a federal civil rights trial about past testimony of a gang expert. The judge said there was no such testimony, “none, zero, zip, nada.”