{"id":2781,"date":"2018-10-31T08:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2018-10-31T08:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:10:45","slug":"chicago-council-of-lawyers-releases-its-2018-judicial-evaluations-for-judges-seeking-retention-and-judicial-candidates-seeking-to-fill-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/chicago-council-of-lawyers-releases-its-2018-judicial-evaluations-for-judges-seeking-retention-and-judicial-candidates-seeking-to-fill-vacancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Council of Lawyers Releases its 2018 Judicial Evaluations for Judges Seeking Retention and Judicial Candidates Seeking to Fill Vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.4pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Chicago Council of Lawyers\u00a0releases today its <span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-CCL-general-election-judicial-evaluations-fnal.2pdf.pdf\">2018 Judicial Evaluation Report<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of judges seeking retention and judicial candidates seeking to fill judicial vacancies.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.4pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also release our\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.4pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/wp-content\/uploads\/Retention-Sample-Ballot-2018-version-1.pdf\">2018 Judicial Ballot Summary<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.4pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Judges make all kinds of decisions, from the very personal, such as child custody decisions, to those with much broader impact. The decisions that judges make affect our lives, both directly and indirectly, often for many years to come. We never know when a judge we vote for today will make a decision that will affect your life and the lives of your family and friends.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.4pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is our responsibility to vote for judges we can trust to make impartial decisions based on fair consideration of the facts and law. In some cases, this means that judges may make unpopular or controversial decisions. We need to trust that our judges can make those right decisions without regard to political or economic pressure. That is why it is so important to vote for qualified people to be judges.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The Chicago Council of Lawyers\u00a0releases today its <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-CCL-general-election-judicial-evaluations-fnal.2pdf.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">2018 Judicial Evaluation Report<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of judges seeking retention and judicial candidates seeking to fill judicial vacancies.\u00a0 We also release our <span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/wp-content\/uploads\/Retention-Sample-Ballot-2018-version-1.pdf\">2018 Judicial Ballot Summary<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">For more information about judicial elections and evaluations, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjudges.org\/\">www.VoteforJudges.org<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0contact\u00a0us at <a href=\"mailto:caffj@chicagoappleseed.org\">caffj@chicagoappleseed.org<\/a> \/ 312-988-6565.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjudges.org\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">We thank you for being an informed voter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Council of Lawyers\u00a0releases today its 2018 Judicial Evaluation  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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