Chicago’s Radical Press Pushes Foxx Loser for Judge
Injustice Watch Endorses Risa Lanier for Judge
Chicago’s most radical media outlet wants to see a former Cook County prosecutor at the center of several controversies under Kimberly Foxx to become a judge in the 19th subcircuit.
If Risa Lanier were to be elected to the position, it would impose a former top prosecutor under Foxx in a district where many Chicago police officers, firefighters, and other city workers reside.
Such a scenario no doubt tickles the fancy of the “reporters” at the Injustice Watch, a media outlet in Chicago more committed to the anti-police movement than any other in the city.
Lanier is at the top of the list for Injustice Watch’s recommendations for judges.
“Among the candidates for Cook County Circuit Court judge — mostly obscure outside courthouses and bar associations — Risa Lanier stands out,” Injustice Watch gushed.
She sure as hell does. Only in Chicago could the burning wreckage that has become the Foxx catastrophe be glossed over by the radical left to advocate for Lanier, one of Foxx’s central foot soldiers, to the position of judge.
In contrast to the drooling obsequiousness from Injustice Watch, Lanier got a whopping two “not recommended” and one “not qualified” by the Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening, a collection of some thirteen attorney groups. The other candidates, Dave Heilmann and Bridget Colleen Duignan, did not receive any “not recommended” or “not qualified” ratings. Apparently these organizations do not see how Lanier “stands out” in a manner that would make her a good judge for the people of Chicago.
Anyone familiar with Injustice Watch knows what is truly going on with the media outlet’s recommendations, which the organization has flooded across social media. In many ways, Injustice Watch is ground zero of the anti-police movement, in particular their near obsession with pushing exoneration cases. Their true mission is easily decipherable from the tired rhetoric of their articles, which generally fail to rise above the level of pure babble.
“Lanier has played pivotal roles in cases in which the conduct of prosecutors overshadowed the crimes they were prosecuting, from the incident involving actor Jussie Smollett to a high-profile failure to share evidence with defense lawyers.”
Um, not exactly Injustice Watch.
Lanier has played a pivotal role in the implosion of the state’s attorney’s office under Foxx. It is her conduct that has been under fire as much as anyone’s. Even Injustice Watch had to acknowledge the chorus of attorneys who have “criticized” her.
“Other lawyers involved in those cases criticized her — along with Foxx and others in leadership posts — for lax oversight,” Injustice Watch goes on.
Lax oversight? Hardly.
Not only has Lanier earned the rejection of attorney groups in their recommendations for judge, but she has been under fire by fellow long-serving prosecutors in the Foxx regime, many of whom have left the office in disgust at what it has become. Here’s one.
In the wake of several dubious news articles attacking attorneys under Lanier for their role in the prosecution of three Spanish Cobras for murdering off-duty police officer Clifton Lewis in 2011, Lanier took the two attorneys off the case, a move that only added fuel to the fire against both attorneys. In one legal obscenity, two of the Spanish Cobras charged with the murder have had their charges completely dropped while Lanier was a top prosecutor in the administration.
City attorneys defending a retired detective Reynaldo Guevara for allegations of coercing a confession from two men, Arturo Reyes and Gabriel Solache, who were convicted of stabbing a couple to death and kidnapping their children, demanded to depose Lanier in a federal lawsuit.
The attorneys wanted Lanier to explain why her office suddenly stopped fighting the granting of Certificates of Innocence to the two men after another top prosecutor who had reviewed the cases stated, “There is no doubt in my mind, or the mind of anyone who has worked on this case, that Mr. Solache and Mr. Reyes are guilty of these crimes. It is a tragic day for justice in Cook County.”
Is this what the busy little scribes at Injustice Watch call “standing out”?
Indicting police officers has also been a new development during Lanier’s tenure as a prosecutor. These criminal cases against officers imploded in trial, and the officers were found not guilty. If these same cases came before Lanier as a judge in a bench trial, would she have ruled otherwise? Would she, like Judge William Hooks, be a crucial legal resource for the coveted criminalization of officers that would feed the media machine for Injustice Watch and provide even more cover for the left’s war on the criminal justice system?
Injustice Watch has a long record of ignoring evidence such that the exonerations crucial to Kim Foxx’s war on the police are often little more than media-driven fantasies. Indeed, Injustice Watch is littered with notoriously biased “journalists” like Maya Dukmasova and Dan Hinkel, who once pathetically boasted on social media that he was “the people’s journalist.”
In the end, Injustice Watch’s recommendations for judges appear as little more than witch-hunts against judges or potential judges who might attempt to restore law and order in a city devolving into chaos. In previous election cycles, Injustice Watch went on a kind of media rampage against long-serving judges Maura Slattery Boyle and Matthew Coghlan. Both judges had taken courageous stands against exoneration cases in their courtrooms. Coghlan lost his election and Slattery Boyle barely survived.
Getting Lanier as a judge in a district heavily populated with police officers would no doubt be quite a trophy for the little scribes at Injustice Watch cranking out anti-police tirades in the guise of journalism.
In truth, though, Lanier as a judge?
Now that would be an injustice to watch.